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Title: Drive to Nowhere
Review: I believe Sophia Coppola is riding on her name longer than Johnny Marco has been riding in his sports car - and according to the movie, that's a long time. I'm not saying she isn't accomplished in her own right, but her attributes and movies are so overrated, I can't help but wonder if her famous surname doesn't carry substantial weight among the elite circle of film makers, critics, and judges.As in Lost in Translation, the focus on this film is a bored actor, only this one is younger and his bonding companion is his 11-year old daughter rather than a young, equally bored wife of a cameraman. Alienation and isolation are engaging themes, but the problem is that in Somewhere, the audience can grow just as bored as the main character. You get the impression that Johnny should be going somewhere, but you don't know where. In the end, one can hope he is walking toward something rather than away from something, but by this point, the film took far too long to get nowhere.
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