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Highway 61 (1991)
Hysterical, clever, quirky, all of that.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time (the other one is The Purple Rose of Cairo). If you haven't seen this movie yet then I envy you, because I can never watch it again for the first time like you can. It is the story of Pokey, the small-town barber who has never left his home of Pickerel Falls (well - he hasn't travelled further than Thunder Bay), and his awakening into adulthood one summer as he travels down highway 61 with a mysterious red-haired woman who asks him for a ride. Their adventures along the way as they race for New Orleans with Satan close behind, are often riotous (as in my favorite scene in the bingo hall), and always kooky.
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
this movie is totally magical
"Purple Rose of Cairo" is my favorite Woody Allen movie. Anything can and does happen in this magical story. Mia Farrow plays an excellent ukelele - it's inspirational. Woody Allen portrays colorful characters amidst a dingy grey background of the Depression in New York.