Eat My Dust will never make any top one hundred list, but it's an interesting film that deserves a look. This low budget drive-in fair is basically a ninety minute car chase that revolves around a teenager played by Ron Howard who steals a race car to impress a girl.
Though really not that good of a film, it does manage to capture the reckless spirit of the 1970's, where drinking, driving and rowdy behavior seemed like harmless clean fun. Also, the casting of Ron Howard as the rebel car thief seems both wrong and extremely original at the same time, which makes for interesting viewing.
By today's standards, Eat My Dust would horrify a parent and probably bore a teenager, but it's always wonderful to watch a movie from this era for the sheer pleasure of its "anything goes" attitude.
By today's standards, Eat My Dust would horrify a parent and probably bore a teenager, but it's always wonderful to watch a movie from this era for the sheer pleasure of its "anything goes" attitude.
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