p 　　River of Grass has all the elements of a conventional road movie: a car, a gun, criminal plans, and young lovers on the run from an angry father who also happens to be a suspended police officer But writer and director Kelly Reichardt has instead taken these familiar elements and fashioned an anti-road movie, a deadpan film that is more existentialist comedy than crime drama The young lovers in question are Cozy, the cop 三九 s daughter, and Lee Ray, a shady character from the wrong end of town Lee Ray comes into possession of a pistol, and soon he and Cozy find themselves unintentionally involved in a shooting Fearing capture by the law, the two make plans to leave town, committing a series of robberies on the way However, they don 三九 t manage to get very far indeed, the film 三九 s central premise is how the romantic myth of lovers on the lam proves disappointing in the face of a far more pedestrian reality This well-received, low-budget indie was shot on location in South Florida, placing its story against an appropriately depressed landscape of sun-bleached strip malls, barren highways and overgrown, swampy fields the title is another name for the Florida Everglades p