River of Grass has all the elements of a conventional road movie: a car a gun criminal plans and young lovers on the run from an angry father who also happens to be a suspended police officer. But writer and director Kelly Reichardt has instead taken these familiar elements and fashioned an anti-road movie a deadpan film that is more existentialist comedy than crime drama. The young lovers in question are Cozy the cop's daughter and Lee Ray a shady character from the wrong end of town. Lee Ray comes into possession of a pistol and soon he and Cozy find themselves unintentionally involved in a shooting. Fearing capture by the law the two make plans to leave town committing a series of robberies on the way. However they don't manage to get very far; indeed the film's central premise is how the romantic myth of lovers on the lam proves disappointing in the face of a far more pedestrian reality. This well-received low-budget indie was shot on location in South Florida placing its story against an appropriately depressed landscape of sun-bleached strip malls barren highways and overgrown swampy fields; the ti