I rented the movie “Heartlands” after reading about it on a scooter messageboard, where they said the main character has a small roadtrip on his Honda Cub 50. I found the movie on Netflix, rented it, and, after having it sit on top of the dvd player for a month, finally watched it last night. It certainly has some great footage of Colin (the main character) riding around England on a red Honda Cub, but I was surprised how great the acting and story were. It is sort of artsy, sort of slow, kind of like Lost In Translation. In the middle of the movie, (SPOILERS FOLLOW) I was shocked to see his bike get destroyed by a truck, and the wreckage of the bent frame in the middle of the road almost brought a tear to my eye. Colin was pretty broken up too. 🙂

Anyways, the ending of the movie was excellent. Plotwise it works out how I wanted it to, but wasn’t expecting. And the bonus was that he goes to the Honda dealer and is offered a sport tourer that “hits 190mph”, but then opts for the same red Cub 50. The final scene is of him riding along on his Honda. Excellent movie!