Even with some fine acting, this film can be a long tiring ride.
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10/18/08
Trucker (2009)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:18
Rotten:14
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Excellent performances by Michelle Monaghan and Nathan Fillion and keenly-observed details of small town life elevate this otherwise predictable and inconsistent melodrama.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Diane Ford (Michelle Monaghan), a vivacious and successful independent truck driver, leads a carefree life of long-haul trucking, one night stands and all-night drinking with Runner (Nathan... [More]
Starring: Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Fillion, Benjamin Bratt, Joey Lauren Adams
Director: James Mottern
Reviews for Trucker
You know exactly what is going to happen and you don’t really care.
10/19/09
There may as well be a road sign announcing Diane's transformation from reckless loner to diligent mother, but it's a smooth ride thanks to Monaghan, and an impressive ensemble.
10/06/09
Were it not for Michelle Monaghan's convincingly dirt-under-the-fingernails performance in the title role, there would be absolutely nothing about the film to distinguish it from dozens of other movies.
10/07/09
There are so many wonderfully unconventional things to like about this tiny independent film, Monaghan's earthy and uncompromising performance chief among them, its depth surprising you at every turn.
10/16/09
Top CriticFeatures spectacular performances but these excellent actors are required to do too much heavy lifting with a script that plays out too predictably to be effective.
10/21/09
Trucker is a knockout.
10/23/09
when Monaghan's 10-year-old son (Jimmy Bennett) shows up, the air blows out of the movie faster than a blown tire on an 18-wheeler
10/08/09
The only thing to take away from this bumpy ride is the smooth performance by Monaghan.
10/23/09
Maintains the gritty realistic details of Diane's job and small town life.
08/28/09
It's still a performance you don't want a miss. Michelle Monaghan is memorable.
10/18/08
Monaghan gets how people with honky-tonk souls move in mysterious ways.
10/09/09
What's missing from the payload is surprise.
06/10/08
Top CriticAs the camera perches high on a hill at dawn, Diane’s truck sneaking out of town, you sense the Demme-esque working-class comedy that might have been.
10/07/09
Monaghan conveys the character's boxed-in emotional conflicts through a flickering wariness and constricted body language. Diane seems hopeless, but the actress keeps us holding onto hope for her anyway.
10/09/09
Monaghan does a reasonably good job with a formulaic script that calls for her to become prettier and more feminine as she learns to be a mama bear to her smart-mouthed but ultimately adorable kid.
10/09/09
Monaghan's good, despite being too pretty, and the film, with a melodramatic storyline that seems perfect for a Hallmark TV movie, is good, too.
10/21/09
You want to like Trucker. You really do. But writer-director James Mottern makes it awfully hard with his washed-out, predictable aesthetic.
10/14/09
Michelle Monaghan gives a wonderfully rounded performance, reminiscent in its depth and heart of the one Melissa Leo gave in Frozen River.
10/05/09
Most of Trucker comes off like a sincere but totally artificial slice of life.
10/19/09
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