Rubin and Ed

Crispin Glover plays Rubin Farr, an eccentric and unsociable young man who embarks on a road trip with Howard Hesseman's Ed Tuttle to bury his deceased cat in the Utah desert. Along the way, they encounter Ed's ex-wife Rula (Karen Black) and a series of misadventures. Rubin has a vivid dream sequence where he imagines himself as the "King of the Echo People," but reality soon catches up with them as they confront the consequences of their actions.