T.S. Spivet是个12岁的奇才，酷爱制图学和科学图解。有一天，史密森尼博物馆打电话给他说：享有盛誉的贝尔德奖授予了他，他也被邀请去做次演讲。不为人知的是，他决定乘运货的火车穿越美国去华盛顿。但那儿没有一个人料想到他只是个小孩儿。带着一个望远镜，4个圆规，和他曾曾祖母留给他的回忆，T.S.开始了他神秘的旅程，这旅程最终将让他明白这个世界是怎么运作的……各种笔记、地图和图纸掺杂在幽默而又无法抵抗的具有想象力的故事叙述之中。
这是一部以霍波(Hobo 意为流浪者)为主题的电影，1930年代经济低迷的美国，一个经常搭霸王车的霍波(Lee Marvin,1924-1987)和列车售票员(Ernest Borgnine 1917- )死斗的戏码。
苏利文是好莱坞以喜剧走红的年轻导演电影（乔尔·麦克雷 Joel McCrea 饰），但他不满现状，想将下个作品拍成反映社会底层困境的严肃题材。为了体验底层生活，他打扮成身无分文的流浪汉深入民间，但无论他怎么尝试，最后总是又回到了好莱坞。后来他遇到一个事业失败的女演员（维罗妮卡·莱克 Veronica Lake 饰），让她上车搭了一程，却被误认作小偷送入了警察局。释放之后，苏利文听从女孩的建议，和她结伴一起流浪。这次，他真的成为流浪汉，吃剩饭，睡收容所。最终，苏利文觉得体验足够想要离开收容所时，却被贪婪的流浪汉击晕。一个被火车压死的小偷被误认是苏利文，所有人都以为他死了。与此同时，苏利文醒来之后失忆了，混乱之中打死一个工人，被判入劳改所6年。他在狱中感受到笑声对他的重要性，当他恢复记忆后，他逐渐认识到喜剧能够带给穷人更多。但是，苏利文遇到了问题，他不能说服任何人他就是苏利文，他该怎么恢复自己的身份？
这部电影是伍迪·格斯的优秀传记，他是美国最伟大的民谣歌手之一。他在上世纪30年代离开了自己位于得克萨斯州的家，去找工作，发现了美国工人阶级的苦难和力量。
The story of four young people, ShinAe Ahn who is transgender, and three others, pan-sexual, gay, and lesbian respectively, who are fed up with the oppressive and authoritarian conservative government and its influence on the country. ShinAe Ahn decides to run for the office of prime minister, with the help of her friends and supporters. She meets a lot of caring people, and also a lot of haters. The current Prime Minister is not at all tolerant of the LGBTQIA+ community and is trying his hardest to stop any party that does not follow the orders of the conservative government from running without any logical reason to do so. That creates a political divide within the country, as politicians will attack anyone who is and/or who acts differently, or who stands up for people/themselves who they personally don't like. This story however is being told after the fact, a few years after the election, when ShinAe won as prime minister.
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
A piece of writing with real danger and which focuses on a mysterious mafia of violent Viet Nam Vets living on freight trains who are akin to Hell's Angels without the Harley. The net is closing since they are being pursued by relentless railroad agents. They may be a repugnant set of people and the film will disturb and provoke the audience that sees it but it follows what John Steppling (also writer of '52 Pickup' directed by John Frankenheimer w/ Roy Sheider and Ann Margaret and 'Animal Factory' directed by Steve Buscemi w/ Willem Dafoe. Mickey Rourke. Ed Furlong) believes - 'Art is not your friend'.
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
Irish director John T Davis stashes a camera in his bedroll, catches out, and rides the rails from Minneapolis to Seattle with Beargrease, a part-time hobo and full time philosopher, who narrates their way through the incredible scenery of the Northwest and gives us his views on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The pair meet up several other men living life on the margins: in particular a scene in which Duffy - an ex-corporate executive now living under a bridge in Spokane & collecting cans - describes how he got there is riveting.
An irresponsible preppie, Preston West, is presumed to have murdered his parents for a sizable inheritance, so he flees to find the real killer, Phantom 13, a crazed freight train hobo. Riding speeding boxcars, Preston encounters hostile train yards, vicious railroad cops, hidden hobo jungles, mysterious Lacy, the notorious Baron and his colorful Hobo Gang. In a surprise ending, Preston finally confronts Phantom 13.
A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find romance in the persons of two waitresses at the camp restaurant. American-slang rules the dialogue to the point non-USA viewers need a slang-glossary to follow the dialogue.
The Great American Hobo produced in 1980 features the music of Supertramp's "Take the Long Way Home" documenting the men and women who rode freight trains. Shot in 14 states and culminates with the Hobo Convention in Britt Iowa. Premiered the Independent Eye series for PBS in 1980.
Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers relay the experiences and painful recollections of these now-elderly survivors of the rails. Forced to travel more by economic necessity than the spirit of adventure, the film's subjects dispel romantic myths of a hobo existence and its corresponding veneer of freedom. Riding the Rails recounts the hoboes' trade secrets for survival and accounts of dank miseries, loneliness, imprisonment, death, and dispossession. Sixty years later, the filmmakers transport their subjects back to the tracks, where the surging impact of sound and movement resuscitates memories of a shattered adolescence and devastating rite of passage.
Documentary - Ernest Borgnine, star of the classic train movie Emperor of the North, hosts and narrates this remarkable examination of the uniquely American Hobo.