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Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dondup, a young government official who dreams of escaping his rural village for America, misses his bus to the city and is forced to hitchhike with an elderly apple seller, a young monk, and an elderly man and his beautiful daughter. Along the way, the monk tells the story of another young man that mirrors Dondup's ambitions.
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video Distributors ; Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c1999, c1953
Physical Desc
1 DVD (70 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two middle-class American homebodies on vacation in Mexico on a long-awaited fishing trip decide to pick up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a killer. Suddenly their car and their very lives are commandeered by a psychopathic serial killer.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his fathers wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930s woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs...
Author
Description
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable...
5) Snow cake
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recently released from prison, Alex offers a ride to a hitchhiker, only to have her killed instantly when they are involved in a brutal car accident. Alex then approaches the girl's mother, and the events that unfold dramatically change both his life and those of others around him.
Author
Publisher
PFP Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Eddie Valpolicella, is on his way from Massachusetts to Arkansas to give a talk on "his" novel, Breakfast with Buddha, when, not far from home, he picks up a mysterious hitchhiker. Plainly dressed, insisting that he's a fan of the author, the hitchhiker claims to be Jesus, the Jesus, and accompanies Eddie on a five-day road trip that challenges him in an amusing variety of ways.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A journey in the footsteps of the enigmatic young American named Chris McCandless, who vanished and ultimately perished in the Alaskan wilderness. New interviews and never before released letters probe the mystery behind the best-selling book and movie 'Into the Wild.'
8) Carsick
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Film director John Waters hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comedy about a man evicted from his apartment who decides to take his cat, Tonto, and head cross country to live with one of his children. He has many 'encounters' with an assortment of people he meets on the way.
10) The Hitcher
Publisher
Thorn EMI/HBO Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Horror film depicting a young man's attempts to escape from and later apprehend a psychopathic killer he picked up hitchhiking in the desert.
Author
Publisher
MacMillion Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope of Trash?
12) Murder road
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
"July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to be a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long after the hitchhiker gets into their car, they see the blood seeping from her jacket and a truck barreling down Atticus Line after them. When the hitchhiker dies at the local hospital, April and Eddie find...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Sissy Hankshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bag. Follow Sissy's amazing odyssey from Virginia to Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls and ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax.
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