Well, Ida did. And this one was a honey. It is based on a true story, bewailing the dangers of picking up hitchers. It uses the desert locales to create an eerie, barren feeling in the pit of your stomach. A psychotic killer hitches a ride and murders his captives.
Tension fills the police chase, as the victims try to make the best of their bad situation.
A powerhouse of a small film. They win a car and are forced by circumstances to become partners. Jerry and his Great Dane take Dean with them to Hollywood to meet Anita, while Dean wants to get away from his gambling debts to mobsters. With undercurrents developing of anti-Semitism in this crime, Mantegna must delve into his own Jewishness. It could have used more convincing direction for us to believe all the twists and turns in the plot, but this film goes into territory that is provocative and emerges with enough of a compelling story to make it a very good film.