Juan Manuel Cassano Well, let's see... this movie is a little weird. I think it must not be judged from a logical and factual point of view. Movies are art... they are good if they make you feel or think what they intended to. And this movie made me feel Good! The film is about a man trying to escape his past and a strange and mysterious young woman of a small town. He meets her when his car breaks down on the road and the woman offers him help. The movie includes a supposed murder that don't get clear until the end. As the film progresses, events that led the young women to be as she is, are discovered. Drama, mystery and romance, presented with innocence... as if you were telling a story. Nice.

whpratt1 This film starts off with a red sports car driving down a country road and then you notice that this red sports car is pulled off the side of the road and the driver is using a hammer hitting everything under the hood. All of a sudden you see a blue Cadillac pull up next to the red car and a pretty young gal, Missy Lofton,(Neve Campbell) asks the driver, Jimmy McGee, (Billy Burke) if he needs a ride in her car and Jimmy agrees. Missy shows Jimmy the small town of Lost Junction and a mechanic who will tow and fix his car. Missy is a strange girl who wants to be treated like a lady and is very soft spoken and is too sweet to be wholesome and had some very deep dark secrets. Jimmy and Missy decided to take a trip to New Orleans and visited a disco club and danced together and even go to a very old New Orleans cemetery. You will never believe how this picture will end and I would never have been able to guess.

rsoonsa The opening shot of this pleasing film is enhanced by buoyant scoring from Normand Corbeil, and this reveals to viewers that the work that they are about to see is not meant to be noirish in nature, but instead, in an actor's scenario such as this, a general tincture of incongruity is to be established from the outset. Director Peter Masterson, with assistance from lead Neve Campbell, ensures that this is accomplished, while her co-lead Billy Burke consistently provides a foil for Campbell, both being aided by a well-crafted script credited to Jeff Cole, who also produces here. Drifter Jimmy McGee (Burke) is stranded with his broken-down automobile along a back road in an unidentified state in the American South when he is fortunately given a ride from Missy Lofton (Campbell), driving her vintage convertible, but he soon learns that Missy has more than altruism behind her offer of a lift, because she takes McGee with her to her bank in the small town of Lost Junction whereupon she withdraws her entire savings of over $320,000, after which she shows Jimmy the contents of her car's trunk: her dead husband. This all proves to be a bagful with which bewildered Jimmy must deal, and he decides to set off, by foot this time, along the same country road upon which Missy had found him, but she has other ideas and will not permit him to go his own way, Jimmy therefore discovering that he is tied to a woman whose sinister background is more startling than he could have expected, and the two of them, in addition to all other main characters from the screenplay, dovetail to a climactic meeting back in Lost Junction. The film's storyline unfolds in an interesting manner, and solid performances are turned in by the cast, with Campbell's reading being particularly effective, and director Masterson paces his scenes correctly, permitting the narrative's admittedly bizarre events to develop within a well-detailed and naturalistic framework. The editing of Peter Frank and cinematography by Thomas Burstyn, the latter utilizing beautiful Quebec locations, are invaluable, with all shooting occurring during daylight hours for this film that, largely as a result, becomes a whimsical character study that emphasizes its elements of mystery and romance, thereupon further negating any possible connection to the Noir genre.

afhick This is a pleasant little film with an amiable cast. It's always fun to see Billy Burke in a starring role. You may think you know where this is going from the first view of the corpse in the trunk, but you'd probably be wrong. There's a touching side trip to Charleston, where Jimmy (Burke) faces down some old demons, even if the film never knows quite what to do with the Jake Busey character after this, and Neve Campbell is properly enigmatic as "the girl"--she's femme enough without being overly fatale. My favorite scene is when Dil, er, Billy, er, Jimmy sings along with a tape of Fred Neil on "Other Side of This Life." If you've never seen "Dil Scallion," it's a much better film than "Lost Junction," but this one is okay, an agreeable time-waster, if a bit more beige than noir. But that's fine too.