

Desert Blue
Once You Get There, You'll Never Want To Leave
An academic obsessed with roadside attractions and his tv-star daughter stop at a small desert town to see the world's largest ice cream cone, where, because of an accident that spilled an unknown substance all over the highway, they are forced to spend a few days with the towns eccentric residents.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $2M
- Box office
- $100.6K
- Language
- English
- fire
- quarantine
- bomb
- explosive
- fbi
- water park
- bonfire
- ice cream cone
- four-wheelers
- soda
- aqueduct
- beer bong
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United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)R4 Jun 1999
CanadaCA
- PremiereRToronto International Film Festival12 Sept 1998
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Desert Blue was released on 4 June 1999.
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Wuchak
9/7/2025
**_Long stop at a desolate settlement in the Southwest and the peculiar people thereof_** A TV actress and her professor father (Kate Hudson and John Heard) stop at a dying mining town in the desert to see a roadside attraction and inadvertently become stuck there for a few days. The eccentric citizens include a young man preoccupied with his late father’s dream (Brendan Sexton III), a girl obsessed with pipe bom…
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