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- 1987
- PG
- New Century Vista Film Company
- 1 h 28 m
- 1987
- PG
- New Century Vista Film Company
- 1 h 28 m
Summary A crafty political aide and his soft-spoken pal are assigned the job of delivering a senator's out-of-control teenage daughter to an institution.
Directed By: Bill Norton
Written By: Richard Martini, Tim Metcalfe, Miguel Tejada-Flores
- 1987
- PG
- New Century Vista Film Company
- 1 h 28 m
- 1987
- PG
- New Century Vista Film Company
- 1 h 28 m
Three for the Road
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Summary A crafty political aide and his soft-spoken pal are assigned the job of delivering a senator's out-of-control teenage daughter to an institution.
Directed By: Bill Norton
Written By: Richard Martini, Tim Metcalfe, Miguel Tejada-Flores
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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17% Positive
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1 Review
33% Mixed
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2 Reviews
50% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
35
17% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
33% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
It’s true there’s little highbrow directing and no chic cinematography nor a musical score that you’ll whistle the next day. But if you’re in a mood for good, solid laughs and a rompy time traveling the roads with three rather good actors, “Three for the Road” is a good bet.
Each time Sheen threatens to take the film to another level, director Noton throws in a pratfall or a car chase to knock it down. Three for the Road" is a film that must struggle to be stupid; unfortunately, it succeeds. [15 Apr 1987, p.5]
There's not much to this empty-headed feature except that Sheen gives a commendable performance with what little characterization is provided by the lame script.
The movie makers try to revive another day’s genre--the early ’70’s “road” pictures--in today’s terms. And it doesn’t work. The looser, more anarchic feelings they’re going after don’t jibe with the modern packaging, and they wind up with something slicked-up, streamlined and hollow--like “Blowing in the Wind” rearranged as elevator music.
The director, B. W. L. Norton, and the writers, Richard Martini, Tim Metcalfe and Miguel Tejada-Flores, display no idea whatsoever of how to keep a film moving or how to hold an audience's interest. Listlessness and sloppiness on this scale are truly depressing.
Road is about as much fun as a flat tire. [10 Apr 1987, p.D5]
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