Top Ten Road Trip Movies
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Top Ten Road Trip Movies

Just like you, Hollywood is thrilled by the open road. Which road movie is the best of all time?

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1 Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The odd couple at the airport: Steve Martin and John Candy try every kind of conveyance to get themselves back home. 63 235
2 Rain Man
Brothers Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise as the autistic-savant and the yuppie respectively, forge family bonds en route from Ohio to LA. 50 224
3 Smokey and the Bandit
Burt Reynolds again, this time as a bootlegger who needs to bring beer from Texas to Georgia in 28 hours. 50 212
4 Easy Rider
Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and some contraband was all it took to make an all-American countercultural classic. 46 214
5 The Cannonball Run
Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, and Jackie Chan race cross-country, cheerfully engaging in sabotage if it means gaining time. 28 180
6 Thelma & Louise
In Ridley Scott's feminist film blanc, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon go for a ride, and then on the lam. 21 205
7 The Muppet Movie
Kermit, Miss Piggy and the rest of the gang hightail it to Hollywood, although not everyone is happy to see them off. 21 187
8 Little Miss Sunshine
A family of misfits (Steve Carell, Toni Colette, Alan Arkin) board a tempermental VW bus ... to participate in a kiddie beauty pageant. 17 213
9 It Happened One Night
A deb (Claudette Colbert) and reporter (Clark Gable) hit the road, using their thumbs to their greatest advantage. -6 164
10 Two-Lane Blacktop
Nameless drifters drive across the country, picking up hitchhikers along the way, and prove you don't need to go fast to get somewhere. -94 142