david duchovny and michelle forbes play a young journalist couple who want to go to california and but can not really afford to and so they ride share with another young couple ( brad pitt and juliette lewis ) to save on expense . the idea be for them to stop at various murder site along the way and sit where serial killer do their thing and since brian ( duchovny ) be a writer and carrie ( forbes ) be his photographer . what they do not know be that pitt ( earley ) and lewis be serial killer and girlfriend who just go along with whatever he say . i do not care for pitt a a rule but he do justice to psycho role . the scary thing be that he do them so well while i have actually know people like him before and no and not killer and but with pretty much the same mindset . anyway and a the road trip go along and carrie guess that the others be about out of money and but earley seem to always come up with the cash somehow . never mind that he leave someone dead here and there to do it though . lewis do her role well and one that she excel at and a not too bright waif that have a good heart but doesn not understand that she doesn not have to put up with be beat up by earley when she do something he doesn not like . a thing begin to get more unacceptable carrie insist that the other couple be put out at a gas station and and unfortunately it at that point where she inside that she see a news bulletin that tell her exactly who they have be ride share with and after which thing go downhill for them at a rapid clip . this be not the great flick in the world and but it not bad . i watch what be suppose to be the unrated version but i wonder how much be cut out of the rat version and because this seem fairly tame to me and really . not that this make it family fare or anything and unless it maybe the manson family . positive .