Kwik Stop

A wonderful little independent film. I had the chance to see this at SXSW in 2002.

Kwik Stop starts out like your normal Boy Meets Girl, boy and girl go on road trip, boy and girl get into trouble type film. It quickly leaves that genre however and ends up in some completely other place.

It bounces from comedy to melodrama about half way through. All of the performances are wonderful and the writing is good (if not at all times believable). Some of the dialogue was a bit too over the top for my tastes and the ending had me asking "why". I think had this film stayed more light-hearted I would have liked it more. But for the Writer/Director's first effort it was well worth seeing!

I saw this film at the 2001 LA film festival. Loved it. Direction is flawless, performances outstanding, cinematography excellent. Could be cut down by a few minutes, but otherwise, a brilliant film.

Looking forward to more output by all involved.

Prime video popped this film in front of us and my partner and I were enchanted from the get-go.

Super-tight script, clever cinematography plus great casting with mad events occurring.

This story has a romance about it as well as narrative repetition which proves and disproves.

All the characters are likeable albeit flawed and engagement is easy.

There is also a comic element throughout.

Lots of archetypes, lots of beautiful shots and a soundtrack that works.

Film is interestingly hard to place in terms of intended era. There is a mixed-up stylistic feel. We would watch it again.

Highly recommend.

Easy, breezy indy 'road' flick taking place in small town, USA. The title being metaphorical.

Well written with actors giving dead on performances. After first viewing and feeling full 'n satisfied I made a second run through Kwik Stop and worshiped the dialog. Tightly written and delivered invoking awe, in each scene, of the direction. Yet the film does not hem itself in as the very last scene invokes a theme from earlier that blows open the possibilities of the final three characters. With rumination, I like the ending more and more; realizing the screenwriter's almost dare to the viewer.

Yes it is, yet another youth 'learning and growing' distopian tale that have been coming so frequently of late, and seem to be the 'fast ticket' to Sundance/Hollywood (thank god for p2p). In this style, the lyrics of each song fills in the natural voids of communication between the proto-typical teens, and does this well.

There is little to no violence or nudity, shocking or otherwise, to stir up inflated buzz. This results in Kwik Stop having to be judged on more quaint qualities where it smacks the 'brown bunny' with 'love and a 45'. (The bunny 45 thing is a reference to the film's peers and are not in Kwik Stop.)

I just saw this film at the St. Louis Int'l Film Festival, and it may be my favorite film of the year. Kwik Stop has some of the smartest dialogue I've ever heard, in the service of an unusually honest love-on-the-run story. The perfomances are outstanding too. This is a major, major find.