Candy Mountain

Candy Mountain is a 1987 drama film directed by Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer, and starring Kevin J. O'Connor, Harris Yulin and Tom Waits. Set in New York City and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia,[1] it is categorized as a drama and road movie, drawing heavy inspiration from 1960s genres of film and music.

Frank's third collaboration with American novelist and screenwriter Wurlitzer,[1] the latter explains the story as a combination of the lives of both him and Frank. He stated "We both live in New York and we both have houses in Cape Breton. In a way Elmore's route was the same as ours. Music and musicians, their dilemmas and lifestyles, mean a lot to Robert and myself."[2]