It's sweet, gentle, sardonically funny in a few spots, but there really aren't enough elements to keep this going long term, even for half a season. Determined to get away from the crowd of San Francisco friends who are holding him back, Michael Parks heads out to drive down the Pacific Coast Highway on his motorcycle, encountering the equally lost Bonnie Bedelia who has apparently stolen a car and now needs to get away from the highway patrol searching for the stolen car. She claims to be his girlfriend and he begrudgingly gives her a lift. Slowly she lets him in, and a sweet romance develops where these two people who didn't have anywhere to go can now go there together.
A family oriented late 60's anti-establishment drama, this is the parallel of other biker films of the period, and has nice cameos by Akim Tamiroff (a Mexican American man with lots of kids who gives the two a place to stay for the night), Sheree North, Gary Merrill and Martin Sheen. The film starts off on a dour note with Parks witnessing the suicide of a friend, a moment that is eerily flashed back to several times.
The highlights for me were twi scenes.
First Parks refusing to share his breakfast with the seemingly entitled Bedlia because she didn't work for it, and the helicopter shots of the Northern California coast line, adding to the feeling that Parks has of being just a tiny speck in a huge world and trying to be so much more.
A family oriented late 60's anti-establishment drama, this is the parallel of other biker films of the period, and has nice cameos by Akim Tamiroff (a Mexican American man with lots of kids who gives the two a place to stay for the night), Sheree North, Gary Merrill and Martin Sheen. The film starts off on a dour note with Parks witnessing the suicide of a friend, a moment that is eerily flashed back to several times.
The highlights for me were twi scenes.
First Parks refusing to share his breakfast with the seemingly entitled Bedlia because she didn't work for it, and the helicopter shots of the Northern California coast line, adding to the feeling that Parks has of being just a tiny speck in a huge world and trying to be so much more.