![]() The road movie-and in particular, the fugitive road movie-and in particular-particular, the fugitive couple’s road movie-has been a staple of cinema since the very beginning. And while the overexposure of the genre definitely led to it stalling out by decade’s end, taken as a whole, these films managed to capture and convey the apocalyptic tenor of their times better than just about any others, while giving us a glimpse into the future that awaited America. ![]() ![]() There is no image that sums up American cinema of the 1990s better than two lovers together in a car, hightailing it down a blacktop highway through an empty desert wasteland.Īny number of films from those years contain just such a scene, thanks to the explosion in popularity of lovers-on-the-run narratives, which ran the gamut in terms of scope, budget, audience appeal and quality, and attracted several of the most exciting filmmakers–established and up-and-coming–of the era.
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