Highway 61 (1991) on Netflix
Pokey Jones, a barber near Thunder Bay, Ontario, dreams of playing jazz. He finds a frozen corpse in his backyard, and roadie Jackie Bangs says the dead man is her brother.
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- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb7.0/101,575 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes100%
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Plot summary
Pokey Jones is an orphaned barber in a small town near Thunder Bay, Ontario, who dreams of becoming a jazz musician. One morning he finds a frozen corpse in his backyard, and then meets Jackie Bangs, a roadie who says the dead man is her brother. Jackie talks him into driving her to New Orleans for the burial in his parents' car, which has not been driven in decades, with the coffin strapped to the roof. They set out along Highway 61, pursued by Mr. Skin, who believes he is Satan and says the dead man sold him his soul.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Highway 61 (1991)
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- In 2001, an industry poll run by Playback ranked Highway 61 the 15th best Canadian film of the previous 15 years.
