An academic obsessed with roadside attractions and his tv-star daughter stop at a small desert town to see the world's largest ice cream cone, where, because of an accident that spilled an unknown substance all over the highway, they are forced to spend a few days with the towns eccentric residents.

Kate Hudson
as Skye Davidson

Brendan Sexton III
as Blue Baxter

John Heard
as Prof. Lance Davidson

Christina Ricci
as Ely Jackson

Casey Affleck
as Pete Kepler

Sara Gilbert
as Sandy

Ethan Suplee
as Cale

Peter Sarsgaard
as Billy Baxter

Lucinda Jenney
as Caroline Baxter

Michael Ironside
as Agent Frank Bellows
Wuchak
**_Long stop at a desolate settlement in the Southwest and the peculiar people thereof_** A TV actress and her professor father (Kate Hudson and John Heard) stop at a dying mining town in the desert to see a roadside attraction and inadvertently become stuck there for a few days. The eccentric c...