Haily's Favorite Road Movie
I don't feel as though I've seen enough of the be-all, end-all classic road movies to have a favorite, but I agree with a number of the choices I've seen listed so far. "Little Miss Sunshine" and "The Darjeeling Limited" are two of the best among the more recent. By now it's a cliche to take the atypical bickering family and their share of standard dysfunctions out for a drive, but those two films do a really great job in showing the little personal revolutions and evolutions of each character. They emphasis the art of change accomplished through unglamourous travel that anyone with family baggage especially (that is, everyone) can truly identify with and, hopefully, experience. Otherwise, any movie that follows a traveling band, whether more serious ("Almost Famous") or totally ridiculous ("This Is Spinal Tap") has my heart--it's fun to visualize a life with no attachments beyond a love of music!