Zyzzyx Road: Living or Dead?

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By Andrew Droid Webber

Updated 18 March 2023

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Artist	Jayel Aheram; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:33, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
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2006 film by John Penney

Zyzzyx Road

Released	2006 (16 years, 3 months ago)

Director	John Penney
Duration	106 minutes
Genre	thriller film
Country of origin	United States of America
Screenwriter	John Penney
Producer	Leo Grillo

About Zyzzyx Road

Zyzzyx Road ( zə-ZIZ-iks), also called Zyzzyx Rd., is a 2006 American thriller film written, produced and directed by John Penney. It stars Leo Grillo, Katherine Heigl and Tom Sizemore, and involves a philandering accountant who goes to Las Vegas on a business trip, where he encounters a seductress and her jealous ex-boyfriend. The former pair kill and bury the latter along the eponymous "Zzyzx Road", a rural road off of Interstate 15 in California's Mojave Desert. (The road's name is slightly altered.) Zyzzyx Road is not associated with the similarly-named Zzyzx.

The film gained notoriety from its gross ticket sales of only $30 on its opening run, due to its intentionally-limited release at a single cinema, making it possibly the lowest-grossing film in U.S. history in terms of box office sales.