Lost & Found #01: INTERSTATE 60

Written and directed by Bob Gale - co-writer of BACK TO THE FUTURE - INTERSTATE 60 follows Neal Oliver, a young artist being pushed toward a respectable future he never chose. After an encounter with O.W. Grant, a mysterious wish-granting trickster played by Gary Oldman, Neal sets off along Interstate 60, a highway that doesn’t appear on any map.

The further he travels, the more unusual the road becomes. Each stop presents another moral problem involving truth, addiction, ambition, law, desire or regret. Unfolding somewhere between a road movie and a collection of modern American fables, the film features an absurdly strong cast, including Christopher Lloyd, Chris Cooper, Amy Smart, Kurt Russell, and Michael J. Fox.

INTERSTATE 60 barely found an audience when it was released in 2002, despite that cast and Gale’s connection to one of the most successful film franchises ever made. Over time it developed a small but extremely loyal following through home video and word of mouth (particularly in this corner of the globe).

That's why Mark and I have decided to make it the opening film to our Lost and Found series: it's very good, highly entertaining, packed with familiar faces, and somehow still unknown to a huge number of filmgoers. At its heart is a deceptively simple question: how do you choose a life of your own when everyone else already has an answer for you?