John Mahoney
Max Harris
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Almost Salinas: Directed by Terry Green. With John Mahoney, Linda Emond, Lindsay Crouse, Virginia Madsen. A story about a man trying to overcome mistakes and past events in his life.
- (312)
- Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- Terry Green
- 2005
May 9, 2003 · The movie takes place in Cholame, the California town near where James Dean died in 1955, and maybe the only way to save it would have been to leave out everything involving James Dean. John Mahoney stars as Max Harris, the proprietor of a diner in a sparsely populated backwater.
A savvy reporter (Linda Emond) and a film crew disrupt the life of a California business owner (John Mahoney).
- (5)
- Terry Green
- PG
- John Mahoney
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Almost Salinas. 2001. 1 hr 32 mins. Drama. PG. Watchlist. The site of James Dean's legendary, fatal car crash is the setting for this reflective, eccentric drama about idolatry, lost hopes, and...
In a region called the Cholame Valley- the heart of Steinbeck country -Max Harris decides to re-open a long-abandoned gas station that was the site of James Dean's fatal crash. But there's a secret that lies buried in these foothills, and when savvy reporter Nina Ellington comes to Cholame to cover.
The poignant complexity of "Almost Salinas" was beautifully superimposed on the intoxicating beauty of a seemingly godforsaken stretch of an isolated stretch of California highway. "Almost Salinas" was a movie about a movie in production, depicting James Dean's fatal car crash on his way to Salinas.
