Human Highway (1982)

HUMAN HIGHWAY  (1982)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Bernard Shakey, Dean Stockwell
    Neil Young, Russ Tamblyn, Dean Stockwell,
    Dennis Hopper, Charlotte Stewart, Sally Kirkland
Every once in a while, Neil Young takes a little time off from touring and recording, digs into his subconscious with the help of whatever substances are at hand, gets a bunch of his friends together and makes a movie. The results can be goofy, passionate, ragged, eccentric and (usually) off the wall. "Human Highway" is something Neil cooked up in the early 1980s, about a small community hanging out in and around a diner and gas station in the shadow of a nuclear power plant. Neil and Russ Tamblyn play the pump jockeys. Dean Stockwell's their boss. Dennis Hopper's the cook in the diner. Devo play a team of radioactive maintenance men from the power plant. It's like a crazy home movie with some real actors in the cast, and your only chance, I'm pretty sure, to hear Neil Young and Devo together covering a Kingston Trio song.