Hitchhiking to the Edge of Sanity

Hitchhiking to the Edge of Sanity

They weren't in Kansas anymore

2017•1h 19m•10.0/10

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10.0/10(1)

A look at the turbulent social upheaval of the early 1970s which follows an idealistic writer and his soon-to-be-married photographer friend as they set out to find their purpose via a terrifying road trip across the Sahara Desert.

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Steve Ewert

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Dick Russell

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