Motorama

Motorama (1991) is a surreal road comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Barry Shils. Gus is ten years old, fed up with home, and direct about it: he cracks his piggy bank, steals a Mustang, and drives off into an America that seems purpose-built to be strange.

His project is collecting letters from gas-station scratch cards to spell out "MOTORAMA" — a half-billion-dollar lottery run by Chimera Gas Company. The people he meets are something else: a lineup of cult faces in small roles that includes Flea, Drew Barrymore, Mary Woronov and Jack Nance.

Barry Shils plays it like a fable with the warmth drained out. The child's logic is airtight; the world around him is not. Stream Motorama (1991) online on iFILM.