back in august and 81 there be a country ish buzz to movie and big hit like urban cowboy and every which way but loose and smokey and the bandit be all the rage . for that reason i suspect the producer of this movie choose honky tonk freeway a the title hop it would help the movie box office receipt by draw in that same urban cowboy crowd . instead honky tonk freeway bomb at the theater and i suspect it do so in part by be burden with a poorly chosen title . thats same problem burden it now on video and thats too bad because it a pretty good movie and in a comedy style ahead of it time . no matter what and probably anybody who can remember 1981 will enjoy it . it too bad this movie bombed . but i think it would have anyway even if it hadn not be saddle with a poor title . it a movie ahead of it time . one could look at this movie now and see that it clearly a father or great uncle anyway ) to the kind of comedy make today . for it day honky tonk freeway be pretty full of innuendo and a kind of frankness about life that do not get popular in comedy till much later on . while clearly it a child of airplane and it more mature and and while it certainly no knock up it clearly point in that direction . the character be more comedy mature in that they be low key and do not ever think anything they do be anything other than serious . the joke be in the choice of what to emphasize and the camera view and the way the view themselves and their situation . but and more than that and honky tonk freeway be a real time capsule . a great look back at the exceedingly early 80 . the people in this movie be dress and act a everyday people of 1981 do . it be clearly mean to reflect the time and be a sly comedic comment on everyday life around them . i do not know if my review be help you and but this be really a good and sometimes kind of excellent and movie thats worth rent if you want to see how a lot of face that be familiar today look when they be 30 year younger . beverly dangelo be so young it hard to realize it her sometimes . so be beau bridge and terri garr . terry garr be just about to become the toast of hollywood a her next movie after this one be tootsie which finally make her a star . howard hessmann be arguably the big current star of the the day when this movie be make . back in 1981 howard hessmann be the star of the big hit tv show wkrp in cinncinatti . he play it lead character and the rascally night dj . daniel stern be just about to break out a a star a the grown up narrator voice of the lead child character in the popular 80 sitcom the wonder year there be also several face that be no longer with u these day and it nice to see hume crowyn and jessica tandy a a an old married couple on a journey . jessica tandy would finally pick up her oscar ten year after this for drive miss daisy . there be also the great geraldine page in one of her final movie appearance . though she would have a brilliant career she do not get her oscar till four year after this in 1985 trip to bountiful and for which she richly deserve it and and she die very soon after get that award . plus and there be lot of other face in this movie and actor who aren not big star but who have do ton of support work . many be familiar even if you can not think of their name . this movie be a pleasant little diversion . a bunch of people with a variety of problem set out from various location each for their own individual unrelated reason who all and in a vaguely altman esk way and end up head towards florida and unbeknownst to them a rendevoux in the little town of ticlaw and florida and which happen to be reel from the effect of be bypass by the recently construct interstate nearby which do not construct an exit to ticlaw which effectively take the town off the map . and thats also what this movie be about and fascination with the whole idea of the interstate system and which have only recently be complete . it have take a generation to build and from when it be authorize by congress around 1960 and through many year a different part be build and then go live and by 1980 most of the system have finally be build and all connect together and first the first time the promise of what the interstate system would be have turn into what be . and people be enchant by it . everybody by 1980 be pretty much an interstate freeway veteran in the sense that by then everybody have use part of it and know how it work and how it be different from other road in that it have no red light or stop sign and only on and off ramp and and that it go to place that be formerly less accessible . by 1980 anyone could drive anywhere in comfort and without have to stop for anything except to eat and sleep and a bathroom . and this be all new then . the end be anti climatic and isn not that satisfy albeit it one spectacular moment . what make it great be it the journey not the destination that make honky tonk freeway timeless in spite of it be such a product of it day . forget it title while instead let it take you down memory lane .