Indiewire's list description: What is it about the road trip that lends itself so well to cinema? Looking down the entries to the genre, some of our very favorite films of all time qualify as part of one of the oldest tropes in the movies, and today's release of Todd Phillips' "Due Date" confirms, if confirmation was needed, that the style is still alive and kicking.
It's partly that the filmmaker gets to include as many cinematic locations as they can get their protagonists to visit, it's partly that the nature of a chase, or a journey, is inherently filmic, and it's partly that there are few better ways to create drama than sticking a group of characters together and forcing them to travel in the same direction.
In honor of Phillips' movie (which as we'll see, is dividing the staff here as much as it's dividing critics around the world), we've picked over twenty of our favorite big-screen journeys. Not all are perfect, but all are worth adding to the Netflix queue.
