A 1988 film by Ken Friedman, starring Adrian Pasdar and Christopher Penn (brother of Sean Penn) as disgruntled residents of a town being consumed by a coal mine fire. They steal a car and go on a cross-country trek to California, meeting up with a hitchhiker (Lori Singer) along the way.
The first fifteen minutes of the film have footage of Centralia, Pennsylvania, the town with the mine fire that has been burning the past 40 or so years.