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Goin' Down the Road
''Goin' Down the Road'' is a key 1970 Canadian film directed by Donald Shebib, co-written by William Fruet and Don Shebib, and released in 1970. It chronicles the lives of two young men from the Maritimes to Toronto, chronicling their hopes of finding a better life. It stars Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley, Jayne Eastwood and Cayle Chernin. Despite the lack of a large production budget, the movie is generally regarded as one of the best and most influential Canadian films of all time and has received considerable critical acclaim for its writing, directing and acting.
==Plot summary==
Pete and Joey drive their 1960 Chevrolet Impala from their home on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia to Toronto with the hope of meeting up with their relatives in the city who might be able to help them find them jobs. But their relatives hide from what they see as the pair's uncouth behaviour, and the two are set adrift in the city. The men find minimum-wage jobs at $2 an hour for a 40-hour week, still much better pay than anything they could have found back home.
They soon turn their good fortune into residency in a small apartment. Both men start romances, and Joey decides to get married when his girlfriend, Betty (Jayne Eastwood), becomes pregnant. He pursues a credit-driven lifestyle undreamt of at home with his new wife, but the larger apartment and payments on the new stereo and television start to strain their finances. He becomes desperate as their child's birth approaches and the expenses continue to mount.
Disaster strikes when Pete and Joey get laid off at the end of the summer. Unable to find steady work and with bills to pay and a baby on the way, they resort to stealing food from supermarket, a plan which results in disaster. Following this the pair decide to pawn their colour TV set for money in order to make it out to the west coast, leaving Betty and her unborn child in Toronto.
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