Miles From Home

Two brothers, played by Richard Gere and Kevin Anderson, can't meet the payments on their historic Iowa farm (visited by Krushchev in the 50's)--so they torch it, and hit the road, to be hounded by the law, and cheered on by the common folk. Though not as idiotic as 1987's Wisdom (a movie with a similar theme), this film has its moments of pure movie lunacy. Chronicling, apparently, the philosophical (very low grade) disagreements of the two brothers, the story is almost completely directionless as the undynamic duo wander from place to place, garnering kudos from all they encounter. Gere gets more than mere praise, as women fall into the hay with him and/or grant his every wish at the blink of an eye (the famous Gere blink is, throughout, set on semi-automatic). Things come to a head in a spectacularly unbelievable scene, as the brothers drive down a narrow residential street, bashing a half dozen cars in the process, and spill out onto somebody's lawn screaming and punching away--without a single light coming on, nor even the hint of a drape being disturbed by the curious. What this all amounts to is an unsatisfying road drama, with plot holes large enough to run a John Deere tractor through. Not recommended. (R. Pitman)