Coast to Coast is 2003 television movie

Television movie

A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...

 starring Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Stakeout, Always, What About...

, Judy Davis

Judy Davis

Judy Davis is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Husbands and Wives, Barton Fink, A Passage to India and in the TV miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows....

, and Selma Blair

Selma Blair

Selma Blair is an American actress who has worked in film, theatre and television. She has performed in feature films including Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, The Sweetest Thing, Hellboy, The Fog, Purple Violets and Hellboy II: The Golden Army...

, and directed by Paul Mazursky

Paul Mazursky

Paul Mazursky is an American film director, screenwriter and actor.-Personal life:He was born Irwin Mazursky in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jean , a piano player for dance classes, and David Mazursky, a laborer. Mazursky was born to a Jewish family; his grandfather was an immigrant from...

. It is based on the novel by Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael

Frederic Michael Raphael is an American-born, British-educated screenwriter, and also a prolific novelist and journalist.-Life and career:...

, who also wrote film's screenplay. The film is most known for its witty dialogues and wry comedy between its lead actors.

Plot

With equal parts humor and vitriol, Academy Award-winner Richard Dreyfuss and Emmy Award

Emmy Award

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-winner Judy Davis portray Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, a middle-aged couple exploring the ups and downs of a marriage that has spun out of control. They have decided to divorce, but take one last cross country road trip from Connecticut

Connecticut

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 to Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 to attend the wedding of their son and give him their vintage Thunderbird

Ford Thunderbird

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 as a gift. By reflecting on the life they’ve shared together, the couple begins to re-evaluate their marriage and discover the possibility of rekindling their relationship.

Cast

• Richard Dreyfuss
  Richard Dreyfuss
  Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Stakeout, Always, What About...
  
  .....Barnaby Pierce
• Judy Davis
  Judy Davis
  Judy Davis is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Husbands and Wives, Barton Fink, A Passage to India and in the TV miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows....
  
  .....Maxine Pierce
• Selma Blair
  Selma Blair
  Selma Blair is an American actress who has worked in film, theatre and television. She has performed in feature films including Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, The Sweetest Thing, Hellboy, The Fog, Purple Violets and Hellboy II: The Golden Army...
  
  .....Stacey Pierce
• David Julian Hirsh
  David Julian Hirsh
  David Julian Hirsh stars on the TV series Hawthorne on TNT. He is an actor best known to Canadian audiences for starring in shows such as Naked Josh on Oxygen/Showcase, the American version of Un Gars et une Fille - called Lovebites , and the adaptation of Mordecai Richler's iconic novel St...
  
  .....Benjamin Pierce
• Kate Lynch
  Kate Lynch
  Kate Lynch is a Genie Award-winning actress whose career spans four decades. In 1980 she won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Meatballs...
  
  .....Nessle Carroway
• Paul Mazursky
  Paul Mazursky
  Paul Mazursky is an American film director, screenwriter and actor.-Personal life:He was born Irwin Mazursky in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jean , a piano player for dance classes, and David Mazursky, a laborer. Mazursky was born to a Jewish family; his grandfather was an immigrant from...
  
  .....Stanly Tarto
• Saul Rubinek
  Saul Rubinek
  Saul Rubinek is a Canadian actor, director, producer and playwright, known for his work in TV, film and the stage.-Early life:...
  
  .....Gary Pereira
• John Salley
  John Salley
  John Thomas "Spider" Salley is a retired American professional basketball player, actor and talk show host. He was the first player in NBA history to play on three different championship-winning franchises....
  
  .....Clifford Wordsworth
• Maximilian Schell
  Maximilian Schell
  Maximilian Schell is an Austrian-born Swiss actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961...
  
  .....Casimir
• Fred Ward
  Fred Ward
  Freddie Joe "Fred" Ward is an American actor. He began his career in 1979 alongside Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz. He is best known for his starring roles in the motion pictures Remo Williams, Tremors, Henry & June, Short Cuts, The Right Stuff and Exit Speed...
  
  .....Hal Kressler

Award nominations

Year	Award	Result	Category	Recipient
2005	American Cinema Editors American Cinema Editors Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors is an honorary society of film editors that are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing itself. The society is not to be confused with an industry union, such as the I.A.T.S.E...	Nominated	Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Non-Commercial Television	Richard Halsey