Highway 61 (film)

Highway 61
Directed byBruce McDonald
Written byBruce McDonald
Don McKellar
Allan Magee
Produced byColin Brunton
Bruce McDonald
StarringValerie Buhagiar
Don McKellar
Earl Pastko
Peter Breck
CinematographyMiroslaw Baszak
Edited byMichael Pacek
Music byNash the Slash
Distributed byShadow Shows Incorporated (Canada)
Release date
  • September 7, 1991 (1991-09-07) (TIFF)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Highway 61 is a 1991 Canadian film directed by Bruce McDonald.[1] The film is an unofficial sequel to his 1989 film Roadkill; although focusing on different characters, it centres on a road trip beginning in Thunder Bay, Ontario, where the road trip depicted in the earlier film ended.[2]

The film premiered at the 1991 Festival of Festivals.[3]

  1. ^ Michael Walsh, "Hitting the road: Highway 61 an example of garage movie-making". The Province, February 14, 1992.
  2. ^ Jay Scott, "Film Review: Highway 61". The Globe and Mail, February 14, 1992.
  3. ^ Craig MacInnis, "Bruce and Don on the highway to hell". Toronto Star, September 6, 1991.