Human Highway

Sep 10, 1982

1h 28m

★ 5.0

When love and fate collide

Overview

The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.

Genres

Science Fiction

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Shakey Pictures

Human Highway Trailers

Cast

Lionel Switch / Frankie Fontaine

Neil Young

Otto Quartz

Dean Stockwell

Cracker / Stranger

Dennis Hopper

Kathryn

Sally Kirkland

Fred Kelly

Russ Tamblyn

Charlotte Goodnight

Charlotte Stewart

Biker Girl

Pegi Young

Nuclear Garbageperson / Booji Boy

Mark Mothersbaugh

Nuclear Garbageperson

Gerald V. Casale

Nuclear Garbageperson

Bob Casale

Nuclear Garbageperson

Robert Mothersbaugh

Irene

Geraldine Baron

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