Traveller

Traveller (1997)

Swindlers. Scammers. Con-men. As American as apple-pie.

A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended. He is at first rejected, but cousin Bokky takes him on as an apprentice. Pat learns the game while Bokky falls in love and desires a different life.

Date of release
1997-04-18
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (37)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Drama, Crime, Adventure
Director
Jack N. Green

Casting

Interesting facts

Traveller is a 1997 American independent comedy drama crime-road film directed by Jack N. Green in his directorial debut and written by Jim McGlynn.

Production

The film's title refers to Irish Travellers, a nomadic group originating in Ireland whom the film's clan claim as ancestors. Jim McGlynn wrote the original script at the suggestion of his friend, who claimed to have to have gotten drunk with real-life Travellers in an Ohio bar. The script won McGlynn the Nichol Fellowship.

Bill Paxton came across McGlynn's script in 1993, commenting it reminded him of "movies from the '60s and '70s, like Five Easy Pieces and Paper Moon. I grew up on films like Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, Peter Bogdanovich's Last Picture Show and Hal Ashby's Bound For Glory. They had this feeling of gritty Americana.

The film was the directorial debut of Green, the longtime cinematographer for Clint Eastwood. The film includes a reference to the Eastwood film Every Which Way but Loose, which plays on a TV screen in one scene.

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