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
It's still a performance you don't want a miss. Michelle Monaghan is memorable.
10/18/08
You know exactly what is going to happen and you don’t really care.
10/19/09
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
Features 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
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
What's missing from the payload is surprise.
06/10/08
Top CriticMonaghan 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
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
Most of Trucker comes off like a sincere but totally artificial slice of life.
10/19/09
Unremarkable at best, remarkably bad at worst.
12/01/09
Monaghan, so good in Gone Baby Gone, mopes self-consciously through the role of Diane, a loner who finds her heart when she's thrown together with her estranged 11-year-old son (Jimmy Bennett), whom she takes on the road. Yes, it's one of those movies.
10/14/09
The whole thing plays with wobbly craft that, finally, creates a deep patina of suspicion and dullness.
10/23/09
The vehicle (if you will pardon the pun) doesn’t quite know what to do with her character. And so the movie, the first feature written and directed by James Mottern, turns into a conventional mother-child reunion drama.
10/09/09
Top CriticThere 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
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 CriticTrucker is a knockout.
10/23/09
Maintains the gritty realistic details of Diane's job and small town life.
08/28/09
Monaghan gets how people with honky-tonk souls move in mysterious ways.
10/09/09
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