Jon Van Ness

On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of nowhere, thinking that a good conversation will help him not to fall asleep. He will have enough time to deeply regret such an unmeditated decision.

Oscar veterans Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange star in this 1981 adaptation of James M Cain's novel, the story of a sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter who begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.