Wuchak
Long stop at a desolate settlement in the Southwest and the peculiar people thereof
A TV actress and her professor father (Kate Hudson and John Heard) stop at a dying mining town in the desert to see a roadside attraction and inadvertently become stuck there for a few days. The eccentric citizens include a young man preoccupied with his late fathers dream (Brendan Sexton III), a girl obsessed with pipe bombs (Christina Ricci), an ATV racer (Casey Affleck) and a woman who runs a diner (Lucinda Jenney).
Desert Blue (1998) is a quirky indie drama influenced by TVs Northern Exposure. Its comparable to Australias "Rikky and Pete" from ten years prior and a little Gas Food Lodging, as well as later movies like "3 Nights in the Desert...