Synopsis
Two young women take a Greyhound bus tour across America. The trip includes a love story and ends with the whole bus breaking into song.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 15 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- america_for_me_1
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · AWESOME! · Spuzz · 2003-07-30
This jaw dropping film, made about the many wonderful reasons to travel Greyhound, is just about the corniest thing this side of Kansas. Centered around this very flimsy love story between a cowboy and a very uptight female traveller, this movie has it all. Overt sexism, double entendres, BAD process shots, Grehounds the only availible transport in the whole universe (they're the only thing on the road it seems) and much much more! It's perfectly obvious that the actors didn't step out of the soundstage for this one, and to top it all off, we get all the actors SINGING AT THE END! A screwball…
★★★★★ · America for Me (Full Film) · Christine Hennig · 2003-07-17
A woman gives up her teaching career and her hope of earning a master's degree (for which she is writing a "theme" instead of a thesisI wonder if there are book reports involved, too?) in order to marry a guy from Texas that she meets on a Greyhound bus. Of course, said bus exists in a 50s Jam Handy universe, where every passenger is pleasant, white, and middle-class, and there are no stinky guys, but that only makes it slightly less appalling. More appalling is the fact that everyone the woman meets tries their level best to get her interested in the cowboy, even though it's obvious that she…