Max discovers its one thing to forego college in order to concentrate on his career as a musician, while working at the local gas station for money, but reality comes and pays a visit as his friends graduate from college and begin their "real" jobs and lives. "Gasoline Rainbows" is an amiable drama about a young man poised at the cusp of adulthood. Sure, we've all seen this story before, but it is done very well here, and without all of the self-important and pretentious angst which usually accompanies the subject. It doesn't try to answer life's great mysteries, but it is full of nice, insightful moments, like when Max finds himself kissing his friend's cool mother and then has to wonder what it meant and where will it go. Definitely worth a look.
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Something seriously wrong in the execution of this film
Cliffotchka!10 February 2008
Something seriously went wrong in the execution of this film. The film is composed of a lot of episodic instances of friends hanging out whose sum total doesn't really add up to an engaging narrative. There really isn't a narrative here. This is just a reflective film, I guess. The probably may be that this is the director's first film which he also wrote. It's apparently the first feature screenplay he ever wrote and he also then directed it. He failed to transfer his vision from his head onto film. There are certain weaknesses in the low-budget production's attempts to show things beyond it's budget, such as a car crash in the woods, but beyond such pithy critiques, I just didn't find the film in any way entertaining.
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