Paradise Highway

2022 1h 55m EN

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5.9

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★5.9TMDB · 216

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Synopsis

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A truck driver has been forced to smuggle illicit cargo to save her brother from a deadly prison gang. With FBI operatives hot on her trail, Sally's conscience is challenged when the final package turns out to be a teenage girl.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Juliette Binoche
Sally
Frank Grillo
Dennis
Morgan Freeman
Gerick
Hala Finley
Leila
Cameron Monaghan
Special Agent Finley Sterling
Veronica Ferres
Rose
Christiane Seidel
Claire
Jackie Dallas
Deborah

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Anna Gutto
Writers: Anna Gutto
Languages: English
Countries: Germany, Switzerland, United States of America

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ERA

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Released 4 years ago.

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WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: Germany, Switzerland, United States of America.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Anna Gutto, shot by John Christian Rosenlund. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Anne Kulonen. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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CAST

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Juliette Binoche and Frank Grillo and Morgan Freeman carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 6

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt7469828 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Anna Gutto directs. John Christian Rosenlund behind the camera. Anne Kulonen scores. Produced in Germany, Switzerland, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 4 years ago.
2International production across 3 countries: Germany, Switzerland, United States of America.
3Directed by Anna Gutto, shot by John Christian Rosenlund. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Anne Kulonen. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Juliette Binoche and Frank Grillo and Morgan Freeman carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt7469828 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Released under 14 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: John Christian Rosenlund
Original score: Anne Kulonen
Production design: Frida R. Oliva
VFX supervisor: Kai Kiønig Bortne
Sound: Hugo Ekornes
Runtime: 115 min · 1h 55m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Paradise Highway (2022)

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tmdb280390232022-08-26
★ 2/10
Paradise Highway is a knockoff of A Perfect World with Morgan Freeman, Juliette Binoche, and Cameron Monaghan in the Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and Laura Dern roles (respectively), and with Frank Grillo thrown in for good measure — except that the measure in which he’s thrown is not good enough. This is exactly the kind of throwaway thriller that constitutes Grillo’s accustomed stomping grounds; the problem is that he’s not allowed to stomp at leisure. Reduced to a glorified cameo, the movie shoots itself in the foot by giving the person who’s most comfortable in these environs the least amount of screen time. That, plus the unsound climax that leads to the obligatory sappy, happy ending, all but ruin any chances the film might have had of telling an engaging story. That leaves us Freeman and Binoche. With the latter you get what you get; that is, Morgan Freeman being Morgan Freeman, which on this occasion includes him wearing, for some unfathomable reason, a pink fedora. If this is your coup of tea, then more power to you; me, I’ll keep longing for the increasingly unlikely return of Se7en-Morgan Freeman. As for Juliette Binoche as a lady trucker, well, she’s too smart to play this dumb. I’m not saying all lady truckers are dumb, but this one in particular isn’t especially bright. Consider this: she sells her trailer so she can buy a new life for little Leila (Hala Finley), becoming in the process the girl’s mother figure or big sister or whatever. Now, it’s bad enough they both have to live in the truck cab, but my question is, how is Truck Lady going to make a living now that she has two mouths to feed and no trailer? I mean, this is O. Henry-type stuff if O. Henry were a complete idiot. She’s not alone, though. I won’t get into the specifics of the climactic confrontation; suffice it to say that if certain people had been patient enough to wait a mere couple of days until Grillo’s character was released from prison, they could have saved themselves a lot of grief — and spared me the nigh two hours of viewing time.

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