What would you do...
if you fell asleep at the wheel and woke up at the pearly gates and had to convince the heavenly guard that you deserved to get in?
This is the challenge facing Joe the trucker when this is exactly what happens to him. Lucky for him St. Peter has misplaced his guest list and appears to be suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's.
The situation is a recipe for the darkest of humor or the lightest of tragedy as Joe tries to b.s. his way through the gate on his good works and personality. But as he begins spinning a highly creative version of the truth, he soon discovers that he may have miscalculated his judge, and Peter may be just as crazy as a fox.
If Joe has any hope of entering through those pearly gates he will have to face some very uncomfortable truths about himself and doing so may even require some supernatural help.
According to George Monteiro the film’s Writer/Director, “Highway to Hell was an idea that came to me less than a year ago in a dream. Whenever I have one of those vivid dreams, I just get up and just start writing. If I am still writing after a few days, I know it is something I just have to produce. If I am right, the passion is infectious and all the pieces just seem to fall into place.
Of course it doesn’t hurt to have a producer like Rose Warner who collaborated with me on “Infidel”. She can literally turn water into wine. In just a few weeks she had our cast and production team in place. Yes we ran into a few snags and lost some key people along the way, but with a resource of talent and skilled professionals from the “Florida Table” a group of independent filmmakers with it’s roots in Hollywood, a group over which Rose presides, we quickly filled in the gaps and steamed forward.
From the start of filming to the completion of editing it took us less than 4 months to finish the film. In view of the massive number of special effects shots this proved to be quite a feat and a testament to the deep talent pool available to us in South Florida.”
