National Lampoon's Going the Distance
MGM Home Entertainment

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Dubbed "Canadian Pie" by its fans, this north-of-the-border road trip comedy has no discernable boundaries of good taste. To the delight of his hippie parents, straight-laced Nick (Chris Jacot) finally loses his cherry to high school girlfriend Trish (Katheryn Winnick) the night of their graduation. The morning after, she departs the isolated West Coast island community of Hope, British Columbia, for a summer-long internship with womanizing music producer Lenny Swackhammer (Jason Priestley) in Toronto. A promo for all things Canadian, from the breathtaking landscapes to Avril Lavigne, this all-out exploitation flick may be Canada's most outrageous export since Porky's.

Before long, lovelorn Nick decides to propose to his absent girlfriend, so he and his pals Tyler (Land of the Dead's Shawn Roberts) and Dime (Life on a Stick's Ryan Belleville) pile into the Winnebago for a sex-crazed cross country road trip. Dime, in particular, can't wait to get to the heartland where he hears "prairie girls taste like corn." Along the way, the horndogs pick up a pair of hot hitchhikers (Joanne Kelly and Mayko Nguyen) and get chased by a bounty hunter of sorts. At various layovers they all pitch some tents and Tyler earns his "brown belt" (don't ask). In the film's funniest moment, Dime gets a hummer from a farmer's daughter under the table while he's saying grace. The mayhem all reaches a climax at the star-studded MuchMusic Awards in Toronto, and before it's all over, someone's gonna cough up a condom.

by Tim Lovejoy