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Adopt a Highway (film)

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Russell visits Family & Child Services in Los Angeles to check up on Ella and give them an envelope containing details of a trust he has set up in her name, to be given to her on her 18th birthday. Russell leaves LA buying a ticket for a bus trip. When asked where he would like to go, he smiles
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Upon his release, Russell finds employment in a burger restaurant. He visits an internet café and searches for his father, who died in 2001. One night whilst locking up the restaurant, he finds an abandoned baby in the dumpster; a note kept in the bag with the baby reveals the baby's name is Ella.
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Having spent the last 21 years in a Californian prison for possession of marijuana, a middle-aged man named Russell Millings must find his way in a world that has changed completely since he was incarcerated in the 1990s.
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He visits a bank to open his father's safety deposit box, for which he has been left the key. In the box are a letter professing his father's love and valuable stamps, including a
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The baby falls from the bed and is injured, and Russell takes her to a clinic, where Ella is taken away and he is interviewed by the police. After losing Ella, Russell travels to
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might have done more to fill in its sparsely sketched story, but Ethan Hawke's performance is often enough to fill in the blanks." On
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Russell attempts to care for Ella himself and bonds with her, telling her of his father's hobby of
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are positive, with an average of 6.5/10. The site's critical consensus states, "
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acquired distribution rights to the film, and released it on November 1, 2019.
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banner and Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath produced the film through their
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As of October 2021, 69% of the 32 reviews compiled by
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Logan Marshall-Green
Jason Blum
Ethan Hawke
Elaine Hendrix
Mo McRae
Chris Sullivan
Betty Gabriel
Loni Love
Jason Isbell
Blumhouse Productions
Divide/Conquer
RLJE Films
SXSW
drama film
Logan Marshall-Green
Ethan Hawke
Elaine Hendrix
Betty Gabriel
Mo McRae
Chris Sullivan
Nate Mooney
Christopher Heyerdahl
Loni Love
Anne-Marie Johnson
Jason Blum
Blumhouse Productions
Divide/Conquer
South by Southwest
Austin, Texas

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