I confess this to be a very quirky request; any help will be greatly appreciated. My efforts to locate the title of the film through IMDb have thus far proven futile. I seek the title (and, eventually, a copy) of a small, perhaps made-for-TV movie that was produced, I believe, in the 80's -- no earlier than that. I do not think that any actor of particular notoriety, prior, current or subsequent, was in the film. The plot deals (this is a fuzzy recollection) with a young man who, having recently received a doctorate in semiotics from a university in California, is driving across the country (back to the East Coast?), stops in a town in the mid-west, gets romantically involved with a local girl, is on the brink of marrying said girl -- until he experiences a kind of semiotic epiphany (that through which the protagonist perceives the essential cultural aridity of the country's core, I suppose), and drives away. And here, at last, is the part that struck me (though not hard enough), that sticks (though imprecisely) with me: the obviously "semiotic" closing shot foregrounds a container of vanilla ice cream which has been tossed from the sportscar (top down) of the departing semiotician. The day is hot & sunny, the ice cream begins to melt and run down black asphalt as the car drives off in the background. Has anyone else ever seen this film? Does anyone remember the title? Bill McCarthy [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu