road movie

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road movie

n
(Film) a genre of film in which the chief character is on the run or travelling in search of, or to escape from, himself or herself
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At 162 minutes, it is an ambitious but wildly satisfying road picture centring on Star (Sasha Lane), a free-spirited 18-year-old trailer park resident who leaves her troubled home in the American Midwest and hooks up with a traveling band of young people on the backroads of America who sell magazine subscriptions door to door.
Police at the scene in Long Nuke Road PICTURE SNAPPERSK An ambulance, a paramedic area support officer and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford were sent to the scene.
| TRAGEDY: Accident scene in Thornhill Road Picture: ASH MILNES
The house on Cowbridge Road East where Ivor Novello lived before moving to Cathedral Road PICTURE: Matthew Horwood (c)
The beauty of the road picture, however, is that variations exist in all genres.
ONE UP: Swansea City''s Stephen Dobbie celebrates his goal against Leeds, but the Swans lost 2-1 at Elland Road PICTURE: HUW EVANS AGENCY
"It's a fish out of water, it's a road picture, it's fun.
Firefighters damp down the remains of the building on Lancaster Road Picture: GARETH JONES/ grj170510fire-1 The blaze at the old Birkdale School for Hearing Impaired Children
DEATHS The lorry carrying lambs that crashed on the Heads of the Valleys road Picture: Graham Burton
DYNAMITE: A controlled explosion on Crumlin Road in February 2001 Picture: THOMAS MCMULLAN; PEACE: A boy hugs a soldier in West Belfast in 1994 Picture: MARTIN WRIGHT/PACEMAKER; CHAOTIC: Riot between police and republicans Picture: FRED HOARE; STRIFE: Police and republicans riot at a funeral in Belfast Picture: GERRY FITZGERALD; CONFRONTATION: Policeman fires a fatal plastic bullet outside Sinn Fein's headquarters in West Belfast Picture: ALAN LEWIS; INFERNO: Fire crews battle a blaze caused by a bomb at Smithfield in Belfast Picture: BOBBY INGRAM; OUTRAGE: Five people were killed and seven wounded in the UFF attack in the bookies on the Ormeau Road Picture: JOHN HARRISON; WATERSHED: Orange Order during Drumcree protest in 2004 in Portadown, Co Armagh Picture: TONY HENDRON
OFF YOU GO: Blues' Damien Johnson gets his marching orders from Steve Bennett at Carrow Road Picture: SAM BAGNALL