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Just in time for summer long weekends, complete with road trips, here's a look at 30 great road trip movies, as compiled by Entertainment Weekly.

 
May 31, 2011
 
 
 
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) — According to IMDB.com, "The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated."
 

National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) — According to IMDB.com, "The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated."

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National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) — According to IMDB.com, "The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated."
The Wizard of Oz (1939) — According to IMDB.com, "Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home."
Smokey and the Bandit (1977) — According to IMDB.com, "The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff."
It Happened One Night (1934) — According to IMDB.com, "A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story. But then he falls for her . . ."
The Sure Thing (1985) — According to IMDB.com, "A college student plans a cross-country trip to get laid, but ends up traveling with a young woman. They hate each other, so naturally . . ."
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) — According to IMDB.com, "A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion."
Easy Rider (1969) — According to IMDB.com, "Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America."
Road Trip (2000) — According to IMDB.com, "Four friends take off on an 1800 mile road trip to retrieve an illicit tape mistakenly mailed to a girl friend."
Into the Wild (2007) — According to IMDB.com, "After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life."
Death Race 2000 (1975) — According to IMDB.com, "A champion of a brutal cross-country car race of the future where pedestrians are run down for points has a change of heart while being hounded by rivals and a conspiracy seeking to stop the race."
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) — According to IMDB.com, "Story of two men drag racing across the USA in a primer grey '55 chevy. Wilson is the mechanic, James Taylor is the driver."
The Straight Story (1999) — According to IMDB.com, "An old man makes a long journey by tractor to mend his relationship with an ill brother."
Lolita (1962) — According to IMDB.com, "A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old nymphet."
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) — According to IMDB.com, "The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling."
Badlands (1973) — According to IMDB.com, "Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands."
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) — According to IMDB.com, "A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus."
The Cannonball Run (1981) — According to IMDB.com, "A wide variety of eccentric competitors participate in a wild and illegal cross-country car race."
Road to Rio (1947) — According to IMDB.com, "Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter."
Y tu mamá también (2001) — According to IMDB.com, "In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other."
Thelma & Louise (1991) — According to IMDB.com, "An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a '66 Thunderbird."
 
 
 
 
 

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