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Writer/director JJ Lask adapted his darkly comic satire On the Road With Judas from his best-selling 2002 novel of the same name. Set in the early 1990s, the story follows a seemingly conservative New York businessman (Napoleon Dynamite's Aaron Ruell) who moonlights as a cutthroat computer thief. Lask employs an eclectic combination of formal elements in his creation of the film, including fictional narrative, pseudo-documentary, and several additional storytelling modes. Leo Fitzpatrick, Kevin Corrigan and Eddie Kaye Thomas co-star. P.S. 260, the production shingle founded by Lask, oversaw production of the project.
Rating
NR
Director
J.J. Lask
Studio
P.S. 260
Writer
J.J. Lask
  • By the end of this film, I understood what it was all about and it was a bit affective. For the most part of the first act of this film, though, one might feel like this is one of the worst ideas for a film. Not many people are going to really enjoy this one. It is more intillectual, but to a level that will bore most of it's viewers going into it, and in a way it is quite pretentious. I did really enjoy the second half of this one though, so I can mildly reccommend it.
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  • I saw the end of this movie at the AFI Fest a few years ago and it piqued my curiosity. It has some great moments and many not great moments. If you can stand the movie within a movie stuff, I think the relationship btwn Judas and Serra is really moving
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  • This is as good as movies get. Period.
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  • An author writes a book about his life, and the book gets turned into a movie, so a documentary film crew decides to document the story, by showing the movie, interviewing the cast, and the author. Completely and utterly bizarre in a "House of Leaves" kind of way, and has some of the most compelling pacing of any movie I've ever seen. I really did not want to watch it, but I couldn't get away. So consider this a warning: if you want some free time, don't let this be on the TV.
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  • A perfect film about nothing at all. I love films that have no story except for the interaction between flawed character and this movie doesn't disappoint. It's kind of confusing at first but once you figure out what you're watching you're hooked. Best film I've see in awhile.
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  • Interesting. Independent.
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  • if noones gonna lova ya...might as well love yourself......4.5 stars.
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  • Really weird and interesting. Definitely worth seeing!
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  • I too can't believe no one has picked this movie up. I saw it at Sundance and it was by far one of the most original pieces of work that I've ever seen. It definitely makes you go through a lot of self-examination and most importantly, it is very entertaining.
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  • not the best, but as good as it could be. and Aaron Ruell is absolutely adorable in it.
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  • I can't believe this hasn't been picked up somewhere. Albeit most people won't buy into it, but god damn. The story is amazing.
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  • I wish I thought a mainstream audience would get this movie. Maybe it'll get to an arthouse and I can see it again sometime after Sundance. So heavily layered you don't know which layer you're watching at first, but through that tells a coherent story from start to finish. LOVED. THIS. MOVIE.
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  • Loved this. I hope it gets picked up! Very Charlie Kaufman-esque. Self-referential to the creative process. I saw this at SIFF and laughed. My respect for Aaron Ruell just keeps rising. J.J. Lask was at the showing, and he is brilliant.
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  • For those who enjoy the intellectualism, imagery and melancholy of works such as The Royal Tenenbaums or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, this is a film worth checking out.
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  • Lask naver got fomral education but he's certainly movie savvy for his complex and convoluted debut borrows heavily from the recent cycle of postmodern metaphyical meta-narrative films of Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Kaufman, and even Marc Forster
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