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The poignant complexity of "Almost Salinas" was beautifully superimposed on the intoxicating beauty of a seemingly godforsaken stretch of an isolated stretch of California highway. "Almost Salinas" was a movie about a movie in production, depicting James Dean's fatal car crash on his way to Salinas.
“Almost Salinas” generates enormous goodwill and then loses it by betraying its characters to the needs of a plot that wants to inspire pathos and sympathy, but inspires instead, alas, groans and the rolling of eyes.
Almost Salinas: Directed by Terry Green. With John Mahoney, Linda Emond, Lindsay Crouse, Virginia Madsen. A story about a man trying to overcome mistakes and past events in his life.
- (312)
- Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- Terry Green
- 2005
Almost Salinas "Almost Salinas" is a sweet and good-hearted portrait of an isolated crossroads and the people who live there, or are drawn into their lives. Shame about the plot. The people are real but the story devices are clunkers from Fiction 101; the movie generates goodwill in its set up, but in the last act it goes haywire with ...
Cholame’s only business, a diner owned by Max (John Mahoney), is overrun by this glamorous group while the diner’s short order cook (Ian Gomez) and waitress (Virginia Madsen) get caught up into this new, exciting world.
- Terry Green
- Strata Productions
The percentage of users who rated this 3.5 stars or higher. A savvy reporter (Linda Emond) and a film crew disrupt the life of a California business owner (John Mahoney).
- (5)
- Drama
- PG
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Apr 1, 2001 · We don't have any reviews for Almost Salinas. Media. No videos, backdrops or posters have been added to Almost Salinas. Life takes a strange turn when a group of outsiders come to the small town of Cholame, the famed site of James Dean's fatal car crash.
