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Backseat
Directed by
Bruce Van Dusen
Not Rated
2008
80m
Comedy
6.8
8%
43%
10.0
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A "coming of age" story where two old friends flee from New York City on a three-day road trip to Montreal, Canada to escape their problems.
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Backseat Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
Once in a while, a movie inspires nothing more than complete apathy. Backseat is such a lackluster work.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Backseat satisfies itself with small observations and minor breakthroughs of self-awareness.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Alexander's script considers context anathema, leaving us to wonder, among other puzzlers, why these two jerks are friends to begin with - and, perhaps, on what bad breakup or neglected childhood one may blame the film's dispiriting misanthropy.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
A road movie that runs out of gas almost immediately after it gets started, Backseat is the sort of quirky indie feature that impresses at festivals but feels wan when experienced under real cinematic conditions.
Boxoffice Magazine
Chad Greene
To be sure, slapstick misadventures ensue, but there's a sweetness and vulnerability beneath the surface of the boys' sometimes-blue bantering.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Anyone who's spent a lot of time at independent-film festivals will feel a familiar sinking feeling within the first 10 minutes of Backseat.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Culturally falling somewhere between Sideways and Dumb and Dumber, this low-rent road movie similarly rides on principles of audience identification, largely minus competent helming, thesping or scripting.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Sporadically funny, micro-budgeted indie comedy.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Just a series of character skits, some charming and others tedious.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
The flailing, protagonists of Backseat, while not exactly 40-year-old virgins, can have avoided that fate only by the tender mercies of women with low expectations.
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
Bruce Van Dusen's 2005 comedy plots a meandering course due north without locating a word of truth.
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