Monster Trucks (2017)
Monster Trucks is an adventure-comedy movie that follows Tripp, a high school student looking to escape his mundane life. Tripp builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars, that becomes merged with a strange subterranean creature after an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces it. With a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.
Monster Trucks
- Director
- Chris Wedge
- Release Date
- January 13, 2017
- Studio(s)
- Paramount Pictures
- Distributor(s)
- Paramount Pictures
- Cast
- Rob Lowe , Thomas Lennon , Amy Ryan , Samara Weaving , Frank Whaley , Danny Glover , Holt McCallany , Barry Pepper , Jane Levy , Lucas Till , Jedidiah Goodacre
- Writers
- Derek Connolly
- Runtime
- 104minutes
- Budget
- $125 million
Summary
Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp (Lucas Till), a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.
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