Good Trucking Movies

'Convoy' recently popped up on my Netflix as a suggested movie so I watched it for the first time in almost forever. After I watched it, more trucking movies began to pop up, so I've had myself a little Trucker Movie Festival the last couple of weeks. So far I've seen:

Convoy 1978 (Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine)

Trucker 2008 (Michelle Monaghan, Jimmy Bennett, Nathan Fillion)

Flatbed Annie and Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers 1979 (Annie Potts, Harry Dean Stanton, Kim Darby)

Deadhead Miles 1972 (Donna Anderson, Alan Arkin, Madison Arnold)

High-Ballin' 1978 (Peter Fonda, Jerry Reed, Helen Shaver)

It's been a little nostalgic seeing all these movies. Gotta Say I like High-Ballin the best so far.

What's your favorite?

 

Trucker was a good movie. I thought that kid played a pretty good part even though his mom's life was a train wreck.

 

Smoky and the bandit, white line fevor, over the top, black dog, convoy heck I never seen a truckin movie I did not enjoy to some degree.

 

My favorite trucker movie is JOY RIDE.It's a thriller but a good one.

 

High Ballin was my favorite. Couldn't stand "Trucker" only watched like 20 minutes of it.

 

My favorites:

White Line Fever
Black Dog
Duel
Trucks
Maximum Overdrive
Convoy
Smokey and the Bandit (1st one is the only one i care for)
Joy Ride
Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead


and I know its not a "movie", but i like "BIG RIG". It was a documentary that made me really excited to get into trucking.

 

High-Ballin' stars Henry's son, Peter Fonda, as well as Jerry Reed and Helen Shaver. Netflix paraphrases it as "When a rash of targeted hijackings threatens the independent trucking business, two rig drivers take the law into their own hands."

Pretty good flick!

 

I bought Big Rig on DVD when it first came out, after it got all the praise from several film festivals. I need to watch it again. I love documentaries and wish I knew of some other good trucking docs.

 

I forced myself to watch Trucker all the way through. Could have been a good flick. Didn't know what it wanted to be, concentrated on too many interpersonal relationships for such a short movie.