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Trucker
- By Leonard Maltin
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- December 6, 2009 11:59 AM
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Trucker is an emblematic American indie film. It offers a juicy leading role to an actress who usually works in mainstream Hollywood fare, and completely fulfills its modest ambitions. Writer-director James Mottern has crafted a vivid, credible character study of a young woman whose fierce independent streak has led her to a career that allows her to live life on her own terms as a truck driver, while steering her away from long-term relationships. Saddling her with the sudden...
responsibility for an 11-year-old son she abandoned in infancy may seem formulaic, at first glance, but the story plays out with such genuineness—and avoidance of cliché—that one can’t, and shouldn’t, complain.
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