After the death of the mother of a police officer and the divorce of his wife, his life turns into a personal collapse that transforms his life into exciting situations that have never happened before. The police officer will deal with the situation, but perhaps it was only a violent shock and a breakdown.
18 September 1961, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, USA
30 April 1979, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
July 26, 1987 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
October 18, 2018
Thunder Road provides a fine showcase for Cummings, as a filmmaker of some sensitivity and as an actor who shows the full range of this tragic clown.
October 10, 2018
Offers a memorable depiction of a man ill-equipped to deal with or direct his feelings-probably not all that different from the rest of us.
May 14, 2018
Cummings, who also wrote and directed the film, has delivered a remarkable tragicomic performance in the lead.
October 18, 2018
Remarkably, Cummings manages to piece these oddball vignettes into a vivid drama with its own unpredictable, startlingly lovely shape.
March 30, 2018
Driven by Cummings' transfixingly vulnerable performance, the movie not only justifies returning to the source: Shockingly, it does so without even using the device that seemed key to the short's success.
October 12, 2018
The brilliance of Thunder Road is how Jim Cummings strikes a tone of outrageous humor and legitimately earned sadness within the same scene, a feat he accomplishes multiple times throughout the dark comedy
October 12, 2018
It's a testament to the filmmakers here that they manage to maintain a superb balance of comedy and tragedy in this original tale.
October 16, 2018
The fragility of masculine performance is being interrogated here, although no one articulates this, fortunately.
October 17, 2018
Though the sky might be falling, "Thunder Road" swirls about the tragicomedy of Officer Arnaud's plight with ease. It's hard to really forge a film that can wreck you and play with such liveliness.
October 12, 2018
All conveyed in Cummings' tour-de-force performance, Thunder Road is about grief and guilt, hopelessness and hopefulness.
October 12, 2018
I have seen humanistic American filmmaking's future, and its name is Jim Cummings.
March 19, 2018
When Cummings finds the right balance of dramatic license and believable characterization, 'Thunder Road' is exhilarating to watch.
