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04/06/1999 Comedy, Drama 1h 30m
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Once You Get There, You'll Never Want To Leave

Overview

An academic obsessed with roadside attractions and his tv-star daughter stop at a small desert town to see the world's largest ice cream cone, where, because of an accident that spilled an unknown substance all over the highway, they are forced to spend a few days with the towns eccentric residents.

  1. Morgan J. Freeman

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Kate Hudson

    Skye Davidson

  2. Brendan Sexton III

    Blue Baxter

  3. John Heard

    Prof. Lance Davidson

  4. Christina Ricci

    Ely Jackson

  5. Casey Affleck

    Pete Kepler

  6. Sara Gilbert

    Sandy

  7. Ethan Suplee

    Cale

  8. Peter Sarsgaard

    Billy Baxter

  9. Lucinda Jenney

    Caroline Baxter

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2025-09-07
**_Long stop at a desolate settlement in the Southwest and the peculiar people thereof_**

A TV actress and her professor father (Kate Hudson and John Heard) stop at a dying mining town in the desert to see a roadside attraction and inadvertently become stuck there for a few days. The eccentric citizens include a young man preoccupied with his late father’s dream (Brendan Sexton III), a girl obsessed with pipe bombs (Christina Ricci), an ATV racer (Casey Affleck) and a woman who runs a diner (Lucinda Jenney).

“Desert Blue” (1998) is a quirky indie drama influenced by TV’s Norther...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$2,000,000.00

Revenue
$100,590.00

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