She sure is glad to get out of this one-horse town! She’s sick of her stupid mother and her insane need to know things like where she’s going and what time she’s coming home. It also teaches us that a smothering mother is one who won’t let you have root beer before dinner.Ī runaway hitches a ride in a dry cleaning delivery van, right in front of the high school where I took the SATs. The movie teaches us things we already know (Don’t get into a van with a stranger!) and things we may have forgotten (The Professor made it off Gilligan’s Island!). Hitch Hike to Hell is a cautionary tale about hitchhiking, mental illness, and dry cleaning, all set in the Deep V. It’s not something that happens there and yet we have a movie about just that. The 1994 Northridge quake had a magnitude of 6.7, which would also be the Valley’s Pitchfork rating if it had one - “boring, uninspired, with occasional good moments, but overall forgettable.” But among all the awesome and less-than-awesome things the Valley has to offer, hitchhiking is not one of them. There are also bad things too, like tanning salons, my family, earthquakes. Burritos, Korean food, family-run bookstores, an endless supply of frozen yogurt. A lot of good things happen in the San Fernando Valley.
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