Four Lane Highway

Writer-director Dylan McCormick's time-tripping drama about an aimless Maine bartender on a mission to find out why his girlfriend left him abruptly two years earlier is one long, long, clichéd journey of self-discovery that focuses on four characters (one of whom gets very short shrift) who seem rather old to be working through post-collegiate angst.

Sean (Fred Weller) tends bar and knocks around the rambling, university-town house he inherited from his father, a writer whose first novel, "Four Lane Highway," was such an enormous critical and popular success that he spent the rest of his life drowning in alcohol so as to avoid the risk of failing with his ...