
Backroads
1977 · Movie · 1h 1m
ActionDrama
Overview
Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and a young woman who’s running away. Their petty crimes escalate as they go, heading towards disaster.
Ratings
IMDb
6.5/10
Key crew
- Phillip NoyceDirector
- Phillip NoyceWriter
Cast
- Bill HunterJack
- Gary FoleyGary
- Zac MartinJoe
- Terry CamilleriJean Claude
- Julie McGregorAnna
- Essie CoffeyAboriginal Woman
- Allan PenneyShopkeeper
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Themes
xenophobia











