A film that matches filmmaker Brian Paul Higgins' drama with the reality of modern day nomads, Cure for the Crash weaves a story of one girl's pursuit of her lost boyfriend. Displaced by Hurricane Katrina, Ruin, Mes, and Sepher hop trains and hitchhike from New Orleans, to New York, and Seattle, making pit stops in a variety of other places searching for Ruin's boyfriend, Kotton.
While the plot line was fiction, the interviews dispersed throughout the 93 minutes were not. Exposing the "tramp" subculture and the cultures within it, the film paints the lifestyle of a train hopper as exhilarating, free, and unrestrictive as well as precarious. With stories of being rapped, shot at, beaten, and even cut, a free ride turns out to be a bit more dangerous than some would believe.
Higgins said he's been working on the film for 5 years and it started with 30 pages of written script. A first time actor, Higgins admitted that most of the staged scenes were lost on the cutting room floor and that breaking his camera at the start of the film was a bit of a ploy. "If I broke my camera within the first minute of the film, it would only get better from there!" he told the audience.
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