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Thunder Road 15 rating

Following the death of his mother, an emotionally unstable cop sees his life slowly unravel in this extraordinary tragicomedy.

Comedy 2018 90 mins

Director: Jim Cummings

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Overview

Officer Jim Arnaud’s eulogy at his mother’s funeral does not go as planned. Struggling to stay focused as his emotions take over, the tongue-tied 30-something launches into a free-wheeling diatribe of confessional digressions, not helped by the fact that he cannot seem to get his mother’s favourite Bruce Springsteen song to play on his daughter’s pink stereo. Consumed by sadness, Jim searches for some semblance of control in an otherwise crumbling existence.

Propelled by an extraordinarily unhinged central performance from writer-director-star Jim Cummings (expanding from his award-winning 2016 short film of the same name), Thunder Road is a painful, often blackly funny exploration of grief, mental illness and the fragile male ego. It is certainly an uncomfortable watch, but also a rewarding one, brimming with disarming pathos and raw, unfiltered emotion.

Director
Jim Cummings
Featuring
Jim CummingsKendal Farr
Genres
ComedyDrama
Certificate
15strong language
Released
2018
Country
USA
Language
English

Accessibility

CC