John) who stands forlornly outside the autobody shop due to home-front dad-abuse. She quickly ditches a foster home, pays off van repairs by working for an avuncular auto mechanic (Danny Trejo), and befriends a beautiful Oglala girl named Blue (Jashaun St. Nola van-drifts hither and thither, like a slightly feral juvenile hermit crab seeking a shell to hole up in. Post-Clint Nola (Sabrina Carpenter) in “The Short History of the Long Road.” (Bicephaly Pictures) The third choice is to go on a quest to find mom (Maggie Siff from “Sons of Anarchy”). She soon sees her choices clearly: get taken care of by charity, or do like dad and remain on society’s outskirts. I was thoroughly enjoying Steve-as-Clint’s performance, especially his quiet monologue about how a 100-pound Pacific octopus can sneak through a cherry-tomato-sized aperture, eat a fish from another tank, and then sneak back into its own tank, but then Clint abruptly exits stage right, and young Nola is left to fend for herself. Steven Ogg stars in “The Short History of the Long Road.” (Bicephaly Pictures) And Steven Ogg’s trademark Canadian goofiness and immense delight in making his hair look as silly as possible. Sort of a quieter, kinder, much less criminally oriented, dad-daughter version of “Thelma & Louise”: traveling in a desert landscape with fun radio music. And also stealing.Ĭlint’s homeschooled Nola and handed down his love of libraries (free books). It’s easy to see how necessity can come to be the mother of invention. They’ve evolved a nomadic van culture unto themselves, which involves money-making via loquacious Clint’s handyman talents, but also more than a mild smear of chicanery: shoplifting, gas siphoning, foreclosed-house squatting, and sometimes other-people’s-swimming-pools-invading. Nola (Sabrina Carpenter) and Clint (Steven Ogg) as father and daughter in “The Short History of the Long Road.” (Bicephaly Pictures) Teenage Nola Frankel (Disney Channel star and pop singer Sabrina Carpenter) and her dad Clint (Steven Ogg) have been on the road since Nola was a tot. “The Short History of the Long Road” is a somewhat scant indie road movie about a father-daughter team roaming the American Southwest in a cozily appointed VW Westphalia RV van.
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