Mr. Murphy has put hundreds of miles on his car seeking out people like Mr. Hups.
That scene brought to my mind the days of 2003 during the Iraq war, when I was driving my car seeking water for my family.
Based on a Citroën Berlingo, the car seeks to achieve fuel economy of 3.3 litres per 100km and a carbon dioxide emission of no more than 90 grams per kilometre.
By M. E. Vinade and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, August 10, 1940 P. 11 A shabbily dressed man got into an uptown I.R.T. train during the morning rush hour, and, cap in hand, went the length of the car seeking donations.
The slaughterhouse's customers are residents of the nearby Daniel Webster Houses, Muslim fathers who arrive by car seeking meat killed in accordance with halal preparation rules, people planning family feasts or mothers with children simply preparing for the evening meal.
Buses and pedestrians jam the routes, too, and along Route 9A, where it sometimes takes two or three light cycles to pass through the intersection, a car seeking to merge into traffic from the side streets and parking lots often relies on the kindness of strangers.
The movie, based on "The Little Farm," a British short story written by H. E. Bates in the 1930's, is now set in the bucolic Swedish countryside in 1956 and tells the simple and touching tale of Olof (Rolf Lassgard), who places an advertisement in a local newspaper that reads: "Lonely farmer, 39 years old, own car, seeks young lady housekeeper, photograph appreciated".
"In each case, the 'business' consists of a man with a car seeking to make a living by driving it," it asserts, noting that drivers are in no position to negotiate with passengers to strike a bargain.
A park ranger did evacuate them when he and his wife, Elizabeth, were sleeping in their car, seeking refuge from the ash.
Bahrani who co-wrote the script with Amir Naderi plumbs cinema history well for inspiration and there's a Grapes of Wrath texture to scenes of the Nash family piling what they can into the family car seeking some place to temporarily camp.
