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    Highway 61

    Poster of the movie Highway 61
    1991     Comedy    
    Canada
    1h 42min

    McKellar plays Pokey Jones, a small-town Ontario barber who has immersed himself in the mythology of American pop music. Enter Jackie Bangs (Valerie Buhagiar), a disgruntled roadie looking to move a stash of narcotics across the border in an unlikely vehicle: the frozen corpse of a vagrant, which she claims to be her brother. When Jackie convinces him that this is his only chance to make a pilgrimage to the musical Mecca he's always dreamed about, Pokey straps the coffin to the top of his car and sets off with the seductive smuggler for New Orleans -- but he soon discovers that there is a massive gulf between myth and reality, especially when it comes to our southern neighbour.

    Directed byBruce McDonald
    Written byBruce McDonald, Allan Magee
    CompanySkouras PicturesSkouras PicturesSkouras Pictures

    Starring

    Valerie Buhagiar
    Don McKellar
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