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Honky Tonk Freeway
Fast-paced ‘Freeway' Is A Patchwork
Quilt Of Inspired Hilarity
MOVIE REVIEW
Owen Hardy
“….Honky Tonk Freeway, does no less than celebrate America, the land of the freeway,
home of the motorcar, the semi, the recreational vehicle and every other kind of
rubber-wheeled, motorized think imaginable. And it does so in a wild, wacky, wonderful
fashion, one that leaves you breathless and panting, but always keeps you wanting more.”
“…Like it or not, we are a motorized society, as dependent on our cars as a centipede is on his legs.
Almost everything we do is somehow plugged into motor vehicles. They define our very existences…”
--Courier Journal syndicated
HONKY TONK Hits Home
With Playful Bites Of Satire
MOVIE REVIEW
Dean Johnson
“…Schlesinger is successful at finding meaningfulness in meaninglessness.
That may be “Honky Tonk Freeway’s” finest accomplishment.”…its satire is so well accomplished that even
the theme of anti-materialism, anti-trashism – will not occur to all of its audience.”
“…it is, in effect, a modern day morality play…”
--The Orlando Sentinel
HONKY TONK FREEWAY
SUFFERS LOW VISIBILITY
MOVIE REVIEW
David Hinds
“One of the funniest movies of the year opened this week, but you’ll
have to get in your car to see it. Literally. It’s called Honky Tonk freeway, appropriately
enough, and it’s playing at only two locations in this newspaper’s circulation area – a local
drive-in and a theater in Boca Raton. For a major-studio release to bypass every indoor
screen within 25 miles of West Palm Beach is unusual, to say the least…”
“…Honky Tonk freeway attacks what the filmmakers view as an erosion of moral and aesthetic
values, and their effective weapon is comic exaggeration to the point of absurdity.
Nothing the movie criticizes is nearly so objectionable, though, as the distributor’s
determination to discourage people from seeing it.”
--Boca Raton News
HONKY TONK FREEWAY
CHUGS ALONG MERRILY
FILMS IN FOCUS
Richard Freedman
“…Sometimes it’s painful to see ourselves as others see us.
In the case of “Honky Tonk Freeway,” however, the results are as amiable as they
are satiric….its characters are such oddballs, and its satiric jabs so good-humored,
that it makes us laugh rather than wince with self-recognition.”
--The Star-Ledger, New Jersey
HONKY TONK FREEWAY -
AN INSIDIOUSLY APPEALING COMEDY
A Veteran director, the masterful John Schlesinger,
has taken a new screen-writer in hand and come up with an offbeat and insidiously
appealing comedy in HONKY TONK FREEWAY. Edward Clinton has fashioned on of those
Grand Hotel structures, much in the style of Citizen’s Band, Handle With Care and
Airport-Airplane manner, and he has packed it full of oddball, ultra American types.
The whole is brought to a satiric flower by Schlesinger, who sees our country more
than plain, as Midnight Cowboy and Day of the Locust indicated….What Schlesinger has
composed is a comic ode to the American highway culture. A laughing exploration of
the social structures that exist because of life on wheels. It’s perceptive,
diverting and very, very funny.
--Judith Crist, SATURDAY REVIEW
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