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Information
- Year
- 1980
- Runtime
- 100 min.
- Director
- James Frawley
- Genre
- Comedy
- Rating *
- 6.1
- Votes *
- 67
- Checks
- 4
- Favs
- 0
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 0.0% (0:4)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
The Great American Traffic Jam, originally aired as Gridlock, is a TV movie with a Love Boat cast (the fact that Rue McClanahan and Ed McMahon play a couple in this is proof enough, but there are also a couple of musical numbers), that's NOT QUITE a disaster movie and ALMOST a survival film, in which several crazy accidents happen on California freeways, blocking traffic and causing 2-3 million people to be stranded for the better part of a day. We follows several cars' occupants - the obligatory pregnant woman, the band thinking of breaking up, etc. - and John Beck as a heroic traffic expert at headquarters who might be able to get things moving again, if only his boss would listen to his ideas. Played as a gentle comedy, Gridlock is inoffensive but watchable, a very light spoof of disaster movies with its own story to tell. 6 years 3 months ago