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The Long Haul
- Dan Stoller
- Available
- Drama
- 2014
- Black List
- 75
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Market: Mon, 15 Dec 2014
AgentGeoff Morely, Jason Burns (UTA)
ManagerAri Lubet, Greg Walter (3 Arts)
AgentGeoff Morely, Jason Burns (UTA)
ManagerAri Lubet, Greg Walter (3 Arts)
A self-destructive trucker estranged from his son travels cross country with a problematic nephew whom he barely knows.
A recovering alcoholic and a delinquent teen are forced into an unlikely friendship as they drive cross-country to deliver a truckload of goods.
When a young man stows away in his uncle's semi truck for a cross-country trip, it is ip the uncle to decide if he will step in and be the role model that his nephew clearly needs.
A recovering alcoholic truck-driver reluctantly gains a passenger for his cross-country drive: his rebellious teenage nephew.
Film
Film, Character Study, Drama, Family, Coming of Age, Buddy, Mid-life Crisis, Road Movies, Teen, Dramedy, Troubled Youth, Feel Good/Uplifting, Travel, Dysfunctional Family, Adolescence, Alcoholism, Dog, Father, Father/Son, Fatherhood, Fish-Out-Of-Water, Heartwarming, Marriage, Mother/Son, Motherhood, Parenthood, Racy/Raunchy, Son, Student
106
R
Medium
M
Unspecified
45
Average
Manchester by the Sea, Little Miss Sunshine, Captain Fantastic, Good Will Hunting, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Dutch
Present Day / Four Days
40% takes place inside a semi truck. Other locations include motels, rest stops, a bowling alley, a suburban home, movie theater, and other small town shops. More expensive shots include an airport, a car chase sequence, and a near collision with an elk.
DEAN SUTTON (late 40s), a trucker, wakes in a motel with MELANIE (30s), waitress. The two have been seeing each other on and off for some time, and Melanie asks him to stay for breakfast. Dean declines, saying he has to get back on the road to keep pace with his upcoming delivery. Dean gets into his truck with BUD (an aging bulldog) and drives off into the snow.
Elsewhere, TYLER (14) gets in trouble after smashing in the windows of a teacher's car with a crowbar. His mother KATHY (40s) picks him up from school, and calls him out for his constant bad behavior.
Dean calls the house of his ex-wife CHARLOTTE LEWIS (30's), so that he can wish his son NICHOLAS (8) a happy birthday, but Charlotte does not pick up. Dean is forced to make a pit stop after discovering that there is a minor problem with his truck. He calls his sister (KATHY), whom he hasn't seen for three years, and asks to come over. Kathy lives in an enormous house, but after being left by her husband, Kathy is struggling to juggle three kids (including Tyler), as well as work. She and Tyler get into a huge...
Elsewhere, TYLER (14) gets in trouble after smashing in the windows of a teacher's car with a crowbar. His mother KATHY (40s) picks him up from school, and calls him out for his constant bad behavior.
Dean calls the house of his ex-wife CHARLOTTE LEWIS (30's), so that he can wish his son NICHOLAS (8) a happy birthday, but Charlotte does not pick up. Dean is forced to make a pit stop after discovering that there is a minor problem with his truck. He calls his sister (KATHY), whom he hasn't seen for three years, and asks to come over. Kathy lives in an enormous house, but after being left by her husband, Kathy is struggling to juggle three kids (including Tyler), as well as work. She and Tyler get into a huge...