One of the least successful movies of 2012 is Darling Companion, featuring high-caliber actors and a pedestrian script centered around a dog. The dog is found, and then lost, and then found again. You can imagine the excitement.
At the start of the movie, the dog is spotted by Diane Keaton and Elizabeth Moss, as mother and daughter, as they drive along an interstate highway in Colorado. They stop and rescue it. And since they found it by the highway, they name it “Interstate.”
Oops! Rewind! They name it “Highway.”
Rewind again! In this movie, they actually name the dog “Freeway.”
Aside from everything else that’s wrong with the movie, which isn’t quite sure whether it’s a comedy, an action adventure, or a love story, “Freeway” is the wrong name. In Colorado, you’d be likely to name the dog “Interstate.”
Not that the word “freeway” is unknown…