The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizare characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.
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Cast
Dean Stockwell
Director
Neil Young
Director
Neil Young
Lionel Switch
Neil Young
Frankie Fontaine
Russ Tamblyn
Fred Kelly
Dean Stockwell
Otto Quartz
Dennis Hopper
Cracker
Dennis Hopper
Stranger
Charlotte Stewart
Charlotte Goodnight
Sally Kirkland
Kathryn
Geraldine Baron
Irene
Gerald Casale
Nuclear Garbageperson
Mark Mothersbaugh
Nuclear Garbageperson
Mark Mothersbaugh
Booji Boy
Bob Casale
Nuclear Garbageperson
Robert Mothersbaugh
Nuclear Garbageperson
Alan Myers
Nuclear Garbageperson
Pegi Young
Biker Girl
Mickey Fox
Mrs. Robinson
Danny Tucker
Arthur
David Blue
Earl Duke
Fox Harris
Sheik
Trish Soodik
Secretary
Neil Young
Writer
Jeanne Field
Writer
Dean Stockwell
Writer
Russ Tamblyn
Writer
James Beshears
Writer
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source: Human Highway
Human Highway
Neil Young's Human Highway is probably a gem just for his musical fans. Some funny scenes, but too uneven and boring to be enjoyed by the casual viewer. Highlight for Young's fans: Young and Devo playing Hey Hey, My My during a dream sequence.
An hilarious, beautiful, poignant, surreal work of art way ahead of its time. Not for everyone for sure but if you like Americana and honest fun solid filmmaking give this underappreciated gem a shot.
Those aren't spaceships, those are nuclear missiles ... A treat for Devo fans, as well. This came out at the time that Neil Young was experimenting with the New Wave musical style himself with his album "Trans", several tracks of which can be heard in the film. This film displays a very unselfconscious Punk/New Wave aesthetic. Sure, it's disjointed and nonsensical, but everyone's obviously having a lot of fun, and the set design is quite effective, and some of the special effects are interesting as artifacts of the time it was filmed. Can you identify the four cast members who have also appeared in David Lynch films?
A vomitorium is a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an theater, through which big crowds can exit rapidly at the end of a performance.In the case of this movie, during the beginning. I am a DEVO and Neil Young but this was a total waste of talent. This just goes to show you...drugs do not make you more creative. Well I have just spent more time in this review than I did the movie. Anyone rates this above a 1, needs their head examined. Darn, 10 lines of text. Young spent $3,000,000 of his own money on production of this movie. Do people have any idea what 3 million could buy in 1982? 10 lines? OMG, there should be an exception for movies that only need one word...AWFUL!!
Don't believe the negative reviews, this is a very clever movie with great music by DEVO and Neil Young. Ever wonder what happened to the teacher Miss Beadle from TV's 'Little House on the Prairie'? Well, neither had I but her performance here as Young's character's 'love interest' is perfectly flaky; all of the roles are played very well, from Hopper's deranged cook 'Cracker' to Stockwell's sleazy 'Young Otto'.
A silly romp, with model trains as a backdrop. Glowing nuclear plant workers. Rear projection bike rides. The guy from "quantum leap". A short snippet of Young singing "Ride My Llama". It's goofy, quirky, maybe not great, but interesting and a bit daring.Oh yeah, it's fun.
This movie is bad. Not only is it bad, it was never meant to be good. Neil Young and Dennis Hopper wrote this movie during bouts of drug use... if you can call it writing-- they made up the script as they went along. Kind of like Blair Witch Project. Like that unintelligible waste of film, this movie is practically unwatchable. "Good" bad movies are supposed to be entertaining. This was not.
