Todd Phillips · 2010 · road

Todd Phillips's 2010 road comedy. Thrown off his flight and onto the no-fly list at Atlanta, uptight expectant father Peter Highman is stranded three thousand miles from his wife's due date. His only ride is the hapless aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay, and their drive west detours through a Mexican jail and Ethan's ash-scattering stop at the Grand Canyon before they limp into Los Angeles.

1. 1
   Atlanta

   Thrown off his flight and onto the no-fly list without a wallet, Peter Highman has no way home to Los Angeles for his child's birth but to ride west with the maddening Ethan.

2. 2
   El Paso border

   Ethan blunders the borrowed car to the Mexican border, and Peter is jailed for the drugs Ethan is carrying; Ethan breaks him out in a stolen truck and the two flee back across the line.

3. 3
   Grand Canyon

   At the canyon's rim Ethan scatters his late father's ashes from a coffee can, and confesses the secret he has kept since Atlanta as the trip finally nears its end.

4. 4
   Los Angeles

   Shot in the leg by Ethan's accidental discharge, Peter reaches the Los Angeles hospital just in time to meet his newborn, and against all sense keeps Ethan as a friend.