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Just in time for summer long weekends, complete with road trips, here's a look at 30 great road trip movies, as compiled by Entertainment Weekly.

 
May 31, 2011 4:02 PM
 
 
 
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) — According to IMDB.com, "The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated."
 

National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) — According to IMDB.com, "The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated."

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National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) — According to IMDB.com, "The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated."
The Wizard of Oz (1939) — According to IMDB.com, "Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home."
Smokey and the Bandit (1977) — According to IMDB.com, "The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff."
It Happened One Night (1934) — According to IMDB.com, "A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story. But then he falls for her . . ."
The Sure Thing (1985) — According to IMDB.com, "A college student plans a cross-country trip to get laid, but ends up traveling with a young woman. They hate each other, so naturally . . ."
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) — According to IMDB.com, "A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion."
Easy Rider (1969) — According to IMDB.com, "Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America."
Road Trip (2000) — According to IMDB.com, "Four friends take off on an 1800 mile road trip to retrieve an illicit tape mistakenly mailed to a girl friend."
Into the Wild (2007) — According to IMDB.com, "After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life."
Death Race 2000 (1975) — According to IMDB.com, "A champion of a brutal cross-country car race of the future where pedestrians are run down for points has a change of heart while being hounded by rivals and a conspiracy seeking to stop the race."
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) — According to IMDB.com, "Story of two men drag racing across the USA in a primer grey '55 chevy. Wilson is the mechanic, James Taylor is the driver."
The Straight Story (1999) — According to IMDB.com, "An old man makes a long journey by tractor to mend his relationship with an ill brother."
Lolita (1962) — According to IMDB.com, "A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old nymphet."
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) — According to IMDB.com, "The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling."
Badlands (1973) — According to IMDB.com, "Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands."
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) — According to IMDB.com, "A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus."
The Cannonball Run (1981) — According to IMDB.com, "A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country car race."
Road to Rio (1947) — According to IMDB.com, "Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter."
Y tu mamá también (2001) — According to IMDB.com, "In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other."
Thelma & Louise (1991) — According to IMDB.com, "An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a '66 Thunderbird."
Adventures of Prescilla Queen of the Desert (1994) — According to IMDB.com, "Two drag queens and a transsexual get a cabaret gig in the middle of the desert."
Midnight Run (1988) — According to IMDB.com, "An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail."
Paper Moon (1973) — According to IMDB.com, "During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership."
Sideways (2004) — According to IMDB.com, "Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment, embark on a week long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle."
Sherman's March (1986) — According to IMDB.com, "Ross McElwee sets out to make a documentary about the lingering effects of General Sherman's march of destruction through the South during the Civil War, but is continually sidetracked by women who come and go in his life, his recurring dreams of nuclear holocaust, and Burt Reynolds."
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003) — According to IMDB.com, "In a small village in the Shire a young Hobbit named Frodo has been entrusted with an ancient Ring. Now he must embark on an Epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it."
The Wages of Fear (1953) — According to IMDB.com, "In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe."
Lost in America (1985) — According to IMDB.com, "A husband and wife in their 30s decide to quit their jobs, live as free spirits and cruise America in a Winnebago."
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985) — According to IMDB.com, "Eccentric man-child Pee-Wee Herman embarks on the big adventure of his life across the U.S. mainland, as he sets out to find his beloved bike, when it is stolen in broad daylight."
The Lucky Ones (2008) — According to IMDB.com, "The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, TK and Cheever — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S., with Colee on a mission to bring her boyfriend's guitar back to his family because he saved her life, TK seeking confidence to face his wife after a shrapnel injury that threatens his sexual function and middle-aged Cheever planning to hit the casinos in a desperate effort to pay for his son's college tuition."
 
 
 
 
 

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