Human Highway
Sep 10 1982
•1h 28m
•Science Fiction, Comedy, Drama
The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.
Cast
See allNeil Young
Lionel Switch / Frankie Fontaine
Dean Stockwell
Otto Quartz
Dennis Hopper
Cracker / Stranger
Sally Kirkland
Kathryn
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