An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road

An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road

2012 · 34 min · ★ 6.0 · Documentary

In the summer of 1968, a group of people assembled in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. They were making a film of John Barth's 1958 novel The End of the Road.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

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