River road

Mississippi Grind

Crit

This isn't the best Oz movie ever (which is not to say it's not pretty darned good), but it's one of the Ozziest, following rainbows from Dubuque to the Emerald Crescent City and a bet on a horse named Toto's Revenge. Two gamblers, one too good to be true, one too hopeful to be anything but hopeless, set out like Huck and Jim, except in a car, gaming their way down the Big Muddy ostensibly toward a private poker table, but knowing what the film knows: the journey is the destination.

This one could have reached/seemed to reach its destination a reel or so earlier (kids: ask your parents about reels), but, being all in, I could do nothing but wait for the river.