Road Trip Movie 2000 (ORIGINAL | 2024)

Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney), Pete, and Delmar—three escaped convicts chained together, searching for buried treasure.

The set pieces are legendary. The snake in the dorm room. The blind guy driving the car. The cow scene (you know the one). Tom Green steals the show as Barry, the chaotic wildcard. It’s gross, it’s inappropriate, and it holds up as a perfect snapshot of pre-9/11 optimism. road trip movie 2000

Once they snatch the girl, they spend the entire second act driving through the Mexican desert, trying to get to a seedy clinic while a fixer (James Caan) hunts them down. The blind guy driving the car

You can’t talk about the year 2000 without mentioning the movie that literally has the genre in its title. Directed by Todd Phillips ( The Hangover ), Road Trip defined college humor for the new millennium. It’s gross, it’s inappropriate, and it holds up

Technically, this movie is set in 1973, but it was released in 2000, and its DNA is all over the road trip genre. Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobiographical film follows young William Miller as he tours with the fictional band Stillwater.

The year was a strange, liminal moment in cinema. The 90s were dead, Y2K hadn’t killed us, and Hollywood was figuring out what the new decade looked like. The result? An absolute gold rush of road trip movies.