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Goin' Down the Road

1970 · 1h 27m · R Drama
Directed by Donald Shebib

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Story of desolation as two friends travel from Nova Scotia to Toronto in hope of finding a better life. Drifting from job to job: bottling plant, car wash, bowling alley, newspaper delivery, and in between enjoying the night life of the big city. Their previous life is looking better all the time. This movie is a time capsule of Toronto's Yonge Street - record stores (defunct A&A's), bars, and old neighbourhood side streets.

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Goin' Down the Road is about hard times here and now, and it's the best movie to hit town in a long time.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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