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Midnight Madness
1980 · Film · 112 min
Directed by Michael Nankin, David Wechter
A genius grad student organizes an all-night treasure hunt in which five rival teams composed of colorful oddballs furiously match wits with one another while trying to locate and decipher various cryptic clues planted ingeniously around Los Angeles.
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This comment reminded me of a perfect quote from the 'documentary'/video essay about Los Angeles -- Los Angeles Plays Itself (an analysis of LA composed of analyses of movies shot in LA):
" ...The loss of a car is a form of symbolic castration, in the movies and in life. The best films about Los Angeles are, at least partly, about modes of transportation. Getting from place to place isn’t a given. Cars break down, they get flat tires, they get towed. [Midnight Madness: as a tow truck dirver is hoisting a compact sedan onto the rear of his tow truck, four young women in identical red sweaters run up. One of them asks, „Hey, what’s going on here?“] Or you don’t have a car. You have to catch a bus or you have to walk..."
https://filmkritik.antville.org/stories/1071484/
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifii8LvR-ss
it might seem deadpan, but the movie really was a fantastic experience for me