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  • Summary: Kenan is a taciturn 35-year-old tollbooth attendant shuffling between a suffocating home with his ailing but domineering father and the monotony of the traffic-hounded box where he spends his working life. Desperate to resist his father’s attempt to marry him off to a neighbor, and equally determined to prove his worth by fixing his father’s idle old car, the pressure on Kenan drives him to the edge of a nervous breakdown. Temporarily reassigned to a tollbooth on a desolate country road, Kenan begins a flirtation with a beautiful woman who drives by at the same time each day—in a car remarkably like his father’s. Is this salvation for the aging bachelor, or the further unraveling of his mind? (Global Film Initiative)… Expand

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  1. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Glenn Heath Jr.
    Jan 12, 2012
    75
    Both as a character study and modern-day parable, Toll Booth sneaks up on you with its subtle use of repeating motifs and audible cues.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Boyd van Hoeij
    Jan 12, 2012
    70
    Slightly surreal psychological portrait keeps things impressively light-footed and heartfelt.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    Jan 12, 2012
    60
    Though speckled here and there with uneasy comedy, Toll Booth is a psychological pressure cooker that could blow its lid at any moment.

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