Welcome to the latest installment of Flickchart Road Trip, in which I’m starting in Los Angeles and “driving” across country, watching one movie from each state and posting about it once a week. The new movie I watch will go up against five movies from that state I’ve already seen, chosen from five distinct spots on my own Flickchart. Although I won’t tell you where the new movie actually lands in my chart (I don’t like to add new movies until I’ve had a month to think about them), I’ll let you know how it fared among the five I’ve chosen. Thanks for riding shotgun!

There was a little game on the radio show Loveline called “Germany or Florida?”, in which host Adam Carrolla would have callers guess whether some bizarre human interest story, usually involving gruesome or idiotic behavior, had taken place in Germany or Florida. That should give you some indication how this state is viewed by non-Floridians.

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