Episode 594: Far From Home (1989)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 193 minutes

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Summary

We kickoff Noirvember 2022 with something a little different; an erotic thriller from 1989. Directed by Meiert Avis, co-written by Tommy Lee Wallace, shot by Paul Miller, and produced by Donald P. Borchers, the film stars Drew Barrymore as Joleen Cox who, along with her father Charley (Matt Frewer) are stranded in a little trailer park in Nevada on their way back to California.

She’s on the edge of 14 years old and encounters a whole mess of interesting characters… and character actors. There’s Susan Tyrrell who runs the trailer park, Dick Miller as the local lawman, Richard Masur as a burnt out mechanic, Anthony Rapp as a squirrely little guy named Pinky, and there’s some guy named Andras Jones who menaces Joleen and may be murdering people around the park.

Andras Jones and Bryan Connolly of The World Is Wrong podcast join Mike to discuss the film and the phenomenon of erotic thrillers.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Cut it off.
0:21.6	Turn it off.
0:24.6	Turn it off. The time has come for Jolene to grow up.
0:50.3	I'm not 12 years old anymore.
0:53.3	She is about to unlock a secret. She's too young to understand.
0:58.0	There's this boy here who is so incredibly gorgeous. I just want to die.
1:02.0	She knows what she wants, but it's what she doesn't know that can hurt her.
1:07.0	Police!
1:08.0	Don't answer.
1:09.0	When innocence... Have you ever done it?
1:12.8	Become seduction.
1:14.9	Are you scared?
1:15.7	When friendship...
1:17.1	Don't worry, Jolene.
1:18.7	I'll protect you.
1:19.8	Becomes betrayal.
1:21.7	I threatened you!
1:23.7	When love becomes terror.
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