Back to trending
Thunder Road

Thunder Road

Comedy · Drama · 2018

A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.

Movie details

Thunder Road

“Officer Arnaud loved his Mom.”

2018 Comedy · Drama 1h 31m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

7.0 / 10

20.3K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

97 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

79 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.8 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Thunder Road?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

Nearby on the taste map.

TMDB supplies the candidates. CriticWise reorders them by craft, strangeness, prestige, emotion, and pace.

Beaches

Beaches

Comedy · 1988

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Ghostlight

Ghostlight

Comedy · 2024

When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet alongside his estranged teenage daughter, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.

My Girl

My Girl

Comedy · 1991

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...

Bob Trevino Likes It

Bob Trevino Likes It

Comedy · 2025

Lily Trevino unexpectedly befriends an online stranger who shares her self-centered father’s name. This new Bob Trevino’s support could transform her life.

The Shack

The Shack

Drama · 2017

A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

A Man Called Otto

A Man Called Otto

Comedy · 2022

When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.

The Judge

The Judge

Drama · 2014

A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.

Manchester by the Sea

Manchester by the Sea

Drama · 2016

After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

Hamlet

Hamlet

Drama · 1996

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Hamlet

Hamlet

Drama · 1948

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

Where it lives

Watch in your region.

Cinema release signals and current streaming, rental, and purchase options for your region.

Streaming availability data supplied by JustWatch.

Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Jim Cummings

Written by

Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings

Officer Jim Arnaud

Kendal Farr

Kendal Farr

Crystal Arnaud

Nican Robinson

Nican Robinson

Officer Nate Lewis

Jocelyn DeBoer

Jocelyn DeBoer

Rosalind Arnaud

Chelsea Edmundson

Chelsea Edmundson

Morgan Arnaud

Macon Blair

Macon Blair

Dustin Zahn

Bill Wise

Bill Wise

The Captain

Court is in session

Put Thunder Road on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Prestige Tourist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.