Backroad Motel

Backroad Motel

2001 · ★ 8.0 · Drama

A nine story anthology featuring various dregs, druggies, the innocent and the doomed inhabiting a dingy motel room somewhere along Route 66.

Directed by Dan Peterson · Written by Dan Peterson

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