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‘Trucker’ released in theaters Oct. 9
October 8, 2009
| by: Todd Dills
Friday, Oct. 9, is the release date for “Trucker,” a so-called “small indie film” that thus will see a limited release, but perhaps it’s in your area. The press for the movie, at least as run with in many outlets, traffics in some stereotyping — “Michelle Monaghan is transformed from a hard-drinking, hard-living trucker” into a mother, said one online entertainment-show host, for instance, as if the two were impossible to contain within the same person and pigeonholing the lot of America’s hardworking haulers — but the reality of the flick’s story seems more broadly realistic and is, after all, a quite specific story about one young woman’s journey to come to terms with motherhood.
It#39;s about time this movie came out. I#39;d guess it was over two years ago when we were approached by a woman at the Flying J in Lebec/Frazier Park, CA. She was a set designer for a movie they were getting ready to shoot called quot;Trucker.quot;br /br /She was very nice and asked us if she could get in our truck and take pictures of how we had things arranged, etc., to give her ideas of how a real trucker#39;s truck looked. She was worried about asking a male trucker since she didn#39;t want them to get the wrong idea about why she wanted to get in their truck. LOL. Besides, she told us, the movie is about a woman trucker.br /br /So I#39;ve been waiting forever for this movie to be released to see if any of the decor/arrangement of our truck made it in the final set. Of course, I#39;ll have to wait until it#39;s on DVD, most likely.
Stace, let us know once you see the film whether your cab was reflected in the film, eh?