What if Ocean's 11 was about race cars? You'd have The Cannonball Run (1981), an action-comedy film based on the 1979 running of the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash. Yes, that's right, this movie is based on an actual true story.

Featuring an amazing cast of Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Roger Moore (playing not-James Bond), Farrah Fawcett (Beauty), Jackie Chan, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin (Rat Pack!), and Adrienne Barbeau (Swamp Thing), the movie is a cross-country outlaw road race beginning in Connecticut and ending in California.

Enjoy the absurdity!