ROUTE ONE / USA (Blu-ray)

In 1988, after years living abroad, renegade filmmaker Robert Kramer returns. Back, he emphasizes. Not home. To try to understand the country as it is, he decides to travel the entire length of Route 1, from the Canadian border to Key West, filming all the way. His companion on the trip is Docostensibly Kramers friend, a brooding physician back after a harrowing decade working in Africa. But in fact, hes a fictional character played by actor Paul McIsaac, a compassionate man who readily engages those he meets, from business owners, to factory workers and to army recruits.For a road movie, ROUTE ONE/USA features few shots of the open road itself. Instead, we are treated to a series of stops along the wayan Indian reserve in Maine, Walden Pond, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, a Georgia diner, Thanksgiving dinner at a homeless shelter, and evangelical churches that preach the truth about the anti-apartheid movement and the dangers of Disney. There are plenty of characters