Breakdown (1997)
Directed by Jonathan Mostow
Driving cross-country from Boston to San Diego, a couple's Jeep dies on a lonely Arizona highway; the wife accepts a trucker's ride to a diner and vanishes, and her husband hunts the desert backroads for her.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Breakdown site≈ 00:02:00Desert highway, ArizonaInferred
After a run-in with a pickup driver, the Jeep stalls and Amy rides with trucker Red to a diner.
- 2Belle's diner≈ 00:15:00Brackett (fictional)Stated on screenFictional
No one at the diner has seen Amy; the sheriff searches Red's cab and finds nothing.
- 3River≈ 00:30:00Brackett (fictional)InferredFictional
- 4Bank≈ 00:42:00Brackett (fictional)Stated on screenFictional
- 5Red Barr's farm (fictional)≈ 01:05:00InferredFictional
- 6Steel bridge≈ 01:20:00Desert highway, ArizonaInferred
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 156 km
- Places
- 3
- Countries
- 1
- Stops
- 6
- Car: 87 km
- Truck: 69 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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