Interstate 60 - Deleted Scenes

Deleted Scenes

The DVD includes several deleted scenes and the "bridges" where they would be placed in the film. They include-

• Neal visits a government office where he seeks information about Interstate 60 that the client service officer repeatedly tells him does not exist. The officer explains the American Interstate Highway System to Neal. Neal discovers that if I-60 did exist, it would be traveling west to east and be north of Interstate 40 and south of Interstate 70.

• When told by the man in the bar about O.W. Grant at the film's beginning, a waitress tells Neal that she had never seen the man before but he had won a large amount of bets by consuming large quantities of alcohol in a brief time without throwing up or urinating. This is the same man who appears later in a diner and makes similar bets that he can eat large amounts of food without releasing them through similar processes. The man admitted he acquired this quality though a wish from O.W. Grant but did not enjoy it, because in addition to being able to eat without stopping, he now must do so to avoid starving.

• After a co-worker tells Neal that work is the same as high school due to all the rules and punishments, Neal chats with another co-worker named Otis. Otis enjoys his job due to working night time hours makes him feel special. Neal asks Otis if he thinks work is like high school; Otis laughs that he never went to high school.

• Neal meets his father in his office saying that he doesn't want to be in a pigeon hole. His father says that everyone in the world is in a pigeon hole, even starving artists; there are good pigeon holes and bad pigeon holes so it is better be in a good one.

• At the beginning of his road journey, Neal receives a call on his mobile phone but shuts it off narrating that the only freedom left in the 21st Century is to be incommunicado.

• At the police station in the city where drug addicts are given a highly addictive but totally legal drug that they pay for by being in the town's work force, Neal has brought a mother searching for her son. The son has only an interest in the drug and no interest in his mother. Given a choice of staying behind and seeing her son and maybe having him work for her, leaving and never seeing her son again, or taking the drug and becoming a fellow addict, the mother asks Neal what he thinks she should do. Neal relates a story of visiting his grandmother in a nursing home. When she slipped into dementia, Neal said he still remembered the times they had together, and even though she didn't, it still made him happy; therefore, she should stay. The mother cries that she'll never be a grandmother and takes the drug.

• After leaving the hospital at the end of the film, Neal breaks up with his girlfriend who calls him a loser and that artists starving for their work only exist in the previous century.