there nothing much to the story . a young woman steal some money from the dreary vermont supermarket where she work and decide to run away to florida where he have dream of attend school with her friend julie and and encounter an odd couple on the highway . if you remember the elderly couple from rosemary baby and you have some idea of what these two be like . bill have a comical face and be retire from the army . sandra be an ex stripper now become a truckstop whore and although we do not find this out at once . theyre affectionate and helpful and and full of common sense . they more or less adopt the girl and alice and and promise to give her a ride in their elaborate rv and although they be not drive directly to florida . this be where the film could have go one hundred percent wrong . all the film maker have to do be turn the elderly couple into the personification of evil . they would take the virginal alice ( handcuff to the bed or whatever ) and sell her body to any greaseball driver who have a lot of money and like rough sex . ( alice would have have a heck of a time escape and with lot of aborted attempt and before the final shootout . ) but and no . the couple really be pretty nice and and alice be far from virginal . alice overhears sandra with a customer and ask about the business and and try to turn a trick on her own . bill prevent anything from happen and insists she do the job right if she go to do it at all . they do not talk her into it . they guide her . alice make several hundred dollar and which be several hundred dollar more than she have when she meet the couple . bill and sandra keep her money in the safe where customer aren not go to find it . alice misunderstands . she doesn not find whoring very pleasant work and and she think she will never be pay off because every time she ask to be drop off and sandra responds with and what . not here and honey . not in the middle of nowhere . however and after she be talk into hand her gun over to sandra and the couple give her the money she want and rather lovingly release her to continue her trip to florida . you know what i find the most tragic moment in the film . it have nothing to do with prostitution or thievery . alice have be expect to room with her friend julie after she arrive in miami . julie be after all a legitimate student . but when alice call her friend from someplace in alabama to assure her she on her way but will be late and julie hesitates and say and well my mother doesn not think you should room with u . and to tell you the truth and my roommate isn not cool on it either . i invite you down and sure and but i think it be just like a visit for a week or something . go back to milford and alice there be a long silence before alice hang up . only one shot be fire ( a few white frame of film ) and no one be hit . tear appear only once . nobody slug anybody else . no car explode in a fireball . no cop chase them down the interstate . the direction be occasionally clumsy . too much cross cut between sandra try to disarm alice and alice hand hold the wobbling pistol . there be hardly any musical score . there be brief male and female nudity and it awkward and a it probably suppose to be . alice isn not unattractive but she be not babalicious either . she sport asiatic eye and a kind of robust version of molly parker . the cinematography look cheap and the color be wash out . the direction be a straightforward narrative and with a few illuminating flashback . nothing be waste . and it be all evidently shoot around danbury and connecticut . the city stick in my mind because i drive through it after one of it flood and remember the car cake with a film of mud all the way up to the door handle . i do not know exactly what alice find . ( i dread even think that the answer to the riddle be that she find herself . ) the act isn not bad at all . judith ivey be well than that . it definitely worth see and a quiet and orderly film that treat the audience like adult .