SFCS: Gasoline Rainbow
December 8, 2024
Seattle Film Critics Society PNW Awards
Reimagining the road movie with the next generation of misfits, celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers make a coming-of-age film that runs on free-flowing feeling. Alive with friendship and the promise of the moment, Gasoline Rainbow is a beautiful reminder of what matters and what’s real.
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With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from small-town Oregon decide to embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted tail light, their mission is to make it to a place they’ve never been—the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. Their plan, in full: “Fuck it.”
By van, boat, train, and foot, their improvised odyssey takes them through desert wilderness, industrial backwaters, and city streets. Along the way, they encounter outsiders from the fringes of the American West and discover that the contours of their lives will be set by trails they blaze themselves. They are forgotten kids from a forgotten town, but they have their freedom and they have each other, hurtling toward an unknowable future—and The Party at the End of the World.
- Director: Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
- Principal Cast: Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia, Tony Aburto, Makai Garza
- Country: USA
- Year: 2023
- Running Time: 108 min.
- Producer: Michael Gottwald, Carlos Zozaya
- Website: Official Film Website
- Filmography: Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020)
- Language: English
- US Distributor: MUBI