Synopsis
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
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Cast
- Paul RuddAlvin
- Emile HirschLance
- Lance LeGaultTruck Driver
- Joyce PayneLady
- Gina GrandeMadison
- Lynn SheltonMadison (voice)
- Larry KretchmarLumberjack
- Enoch MoonLumberjack
- David L. Osborne Jr.Lumberjack
- Danni WolcottLumberjack
Recommendations
- 91
The Playlist
A wonderfully eccentric examination of unlikely friendships that illuminates the absurd and lovely corners of life, Prince Avalanche is a deeply enjoyable, wondrous delight. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
While the core elements of this reluctant buddy movie could almost constitute a pared-down theater piece, the film breathes with real cinematic expansiveness. Green’s poetic observation skills are the key to that seeming contradiction. - 75
Slant Magazine
The psychological path of these characters is finely marked with signposts, but as Prince Avalanche reaches its destination, you almost wish it would have gotten a little more lost in the woods. - 75
IndieWire
The opposing genre extremes never entirely come together. - 75
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
It’s a “Waiting for Godot” set in the solitary work and lives of two highway line-painters. - 70
Variety
An unconventional, ultimately rather sweet buddy pic that’s an audiovisual treat. - 63
Observer
Mr. Green has managed to turn a story about two road workers doing roadwork into something compelling. Sometimes that is a credit to his quirky script, but mostly it happens when he lets the dramatic scenery speak for itself. - 60
Film.com
Prince Avalanche occupies a strange space between [Green's] broadly comedic fare and devoutly character-driven dramas, and while we’re happy to see him closer to the latter mode once more, let’s hope that he’ll be back in a bigger way the next time out.
