Going Nomad

Going Nomad

🎞️ Movie 97 min US
โ˜… 6.9 /10 1998

A regular guy. On an epic journey. In a small town called New York.

El Cid Rivera is 33 and has never left Manhattan Island; neither have his childhood friends, whom he meets every day at the same bar around the same table. He's tired of his humdrum life and a going-nowhere career. And he's been saddled with the name of an epic hero played on-screen by Charlton Heston (his mother's favorite). Bouncing between dead-end jobs, El Cid struggles to find his calling, yet fears he'll never succeed on the epic scale his mother expects. To find escape, El Cid takes to the empty streets of New York at night - as part of a group who call themselves Asphalt Nomads. He and his fellow travelers cruise Manhattan's 900 miles of open blacktop after midnight in boat-like '70s Buicks and Lincolns to find a sense of control, serenity and briefly, freedom. A tale of self-discovery and the search for purpose.

Cast

Damian Young
Damian Young
El Cid Rivera
Victor Argo
Victor Argo
Spiro
Marilyn Brett
Marilyn Brett
Estelle
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Gregory Wolfe
Tully
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Mason Pettit
Chuckles
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Jamie C. Ward
Rev
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Tom Oppenheim
Eddie
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Jourdan Zayles
Officer Geraldine Fusco
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Graciela Lecube
Mama
J.R. Yenque
J.R. Yenque
Jose
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Jim Papoulis
Composer
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John Inwood
Cinematographer