How Well Do You Know Your Road Trip Movies?

Can you identify the classic road trip movie by only looking at its route?

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1. 1. Providence, RI → Aspen, CO Google
   1. Laurel Entertainment ✓ The Stand
   2. Buena Vista Pictures ✓ Aspen Extreme
   1. New Line Cinema ✓ Dumb and Dumber
   2. Paramount Vantage ✓ Into The Wild

   ✓ X Dumb and Dumber (1994)

   Harry and Lloyd travel cross country (and a third of the way back again by accident) to return a briefcase full of ransom money.

   New Line Cinema

2. 2. Chicago, IL → Southern California Google
   1. Warner Bros. ✓ National Lampoon’s Vacation
   2. Warner Bros. ✓ Due Date
   1. Universal ✓ The Blues Brothers
   2. Warner Bros. ✓ Boys On The Side

   ✓ X National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)

   Clark Griswold drags his family on a road trip to Wally World… only to find it closed for repairs.

   Warner Brothers

3. 3. Los Angeles, CA → New Orleans, LA Google
   1. Warner Brothers ✓ The Hangover 3
   2. 20th Century Fox ✓ Vanishing Point
   1. Columbia TriStar ✓ Easy Rider
   2. ✓ Two Lane Blacktop

   ✓ X Easy Rider (1969)

   Biker hippies “Captain America” and Billy set out on an ill-fated journey to Mardi Gras after a drug deal leaves them flush with cash.

   Columbia TriStar

4. 4. Arkansas → Grand Canyon, AZ Google
   1. Fox Searchlight ✓ Little Miss Sunshine
   2. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ✓ Thelma & Louise
   1. Warner Bros. ✓ Fandango
   2. Universal Pictures ✓ Paul

   ✓ X Thelma Louise (1991)

   The titular characters set out from their one-horse town on a road trip and run into trouble in this dark adventure film.

   Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

5. 5. Wichita, KS → Chicago, IL Google
   1. New Line Cinema ✓ About Schmidt
   2. Universal ✓ Uncle Buck
   1. Paramount ✓ Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
   2. Universal ✓ The Blues Brothers

   ✓ X Plane, Trains And Automobiles (1987)

   Neal Page must retain his sanity after being forced to travel with boorish Del Griffith and make it home in time for Thanksgiving.

   Paramount

6. 6. Scranton, PA → Reno, NV Google
   1. Paramount ✓ Crossroads
   2. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ✓ Kingpin
   1. IFC Films ✓ On The Road
   2. ✓ The Wizard

   ✓ X Kingpin (1996)

   Roy Munson takes Amish bowling prodigy Ishmael on a journey to a tournament in Reno. And Bill Murray’s in it!

   Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

7. 7. Albuquerque, NM → Redondo Beach, CA Google
   1. Warner Bros. ✓ Badlands
   2. Warner Bros. ✓ Boys On The Side
   1. Paramount ✓ Crossroads
   2. Fox Searchlight ✓ Little Miss Sunshine

   ✓ X Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

   The Hoover family heads to a child pageant in California in this critically acclaimed comedy.

   Fox Searchlight

8. 8. Iowa → Wisconsin Google
   1. Disney ✓ The Straight Story
   2. Paramount ✓ Tommy Boy
   1. Universal ✓ The Blues Brothers
   2. New Line Cinema ✓ About Schmidt

   ✓ X The Straight Story (1999)

   David Lynch directs this true story of an old-timer traveling by tractor to visit his ailing brother.

   Disney

9. 9. Cincinnati, OH → Los Angeles, CA Google
   1. Gramercy Pictures ✓ Nurse Betty
   2. 20th Century Fox ✓ Cannonball Run
   1. United Artists ✓ Rain Man
   2. Disney ✓ The Muppet Movie

   ✓ X Rain Man (1988)

   Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt must bring his autistic brother Raymond across the country in order to obtain their deceased father’s multi-million dollar estate.

   United Artists

10. 10. Ithaca, NY → Austin, TX Google
    1. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ✓ The Sure Thing
    2. Warner Bros. ✓ Bonnie and Clyde
    1. Warner Bros. ✓ Natural Born Killers
    2. DreamWorks Pictures ✓ Road Trip

    ✓ X Road Trip (2000)

    College friends head south to intercept a sex-tape to save a long-distance relationship from disaster.

    DreamWorks Pictures

11. 11. Sandusky, OH → Chicago, IL Google
    1. New Line Cinema ✓ About Schmidt
    2. Paramount ✓ Tommy Boy
    1. Universal ✓ The Blues Brothers
    2. Paramount Pictures ✓ What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?

    ✓ X Tommy Boy (1995)

    Tommy and Richard set out on a Midwestern sales trip to save an auto parts company from going bankrupt.

    Paramount

12. 12. Atlanta, GA → Texarkana, TX → Atlanta, GA Google
    1. Warner Bros. ✓ Boys On The Side
    2. Warner Bros. ✓ Bonnie and Clyde
    1. Universal Pictures ✓ Smokey And The Bandit
    2. 20th Century Fox ✓ My Cousin Vinny

    ✓ X Smokey And The Bandit (1977)

    Smokey takes a bet that he can drive 1,800 miles in 28 hours to bring 400 cases of beer back for a wedding… or something like that.

    Universal Pictures

13. 13. Argentina → Peru Google
    1. 20th Century Fox ✓ Romancing The Stone
    2. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ✓ Quantum of Solace
    1. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ✓ Y Tu Mama Tambien
    2. Focus Features ✓ The Motorcycle Diaries

    ✓ X The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

    Young Che Guevara is transformed by his experiences across South America in this true story.

    Focus Features

14. 14. San Diego → Santa Ynez Valley Google
    1. Fox Searchlight ✓ Sideways
    2. Dreamworks ✓ Almost Famous
    1. Columbia ✓ Poetic Justice
    2. Paramount Pictures ✓ Cheech & Chong’s Up In Smoke

    ✓ X Sideways (2004)

    The story of a bachelor party weekend in wine country that goes terribly wrong for these forty-something friends.

    Fox Searchlight

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