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Director:
Richard Franklin
Writers:
Everett De Roche (screenplay)
Everett De Roche (story)
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Release Date:
26 June 1981 (Australia) more
Genre:
Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
The truck driver plays games... The hitchhiker plays games. And the killer is playing the deadliest game of all! more
Plot:
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer who uses a young female hitchhiker as bait to lure victims on a desolate Australian highway. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
6 nominations more
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(5 articles)
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Quality movie more (23 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Stacy Keach ... Patrick 'Pat' Quid

Jamie Lee Curtis ... Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
Marion Edward ... Madeleine 'Frita' Day
Grant Page ... Smith or Jones
Thaddeus Smith ... Policeman 'Abbott'
Steve Millichamp ... Policeman 'Costello' (as Stephen Millichamp)
Alan Hopgood ... Lester
John Murphy ... Benny Balls
Bill Stacey ... Captain Careful
Robert Thompson ... Sneezy Rider
Ed Turley ... Roadhouse Proprietor
Angelica La Bozzetta ... Young Hitchhiker (as Angie La Bozzetta)
Colin Vancao ... Fred Frugal
Paul Harris ... Frugal Son
Rochelle Harris ... Frugal Daughter
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Road Games (USA)
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Runtime:
101 min | Sweden:93 min
Country:
Australia
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

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With a budget of 1.8 million dollars Roadgames was, at the time, the most expensive film to be made in Australia. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Pamela begins writing "TOMORROW'S BACON" on the door of the truck in close-up, the camera then cuts to a longer distance shot of her completing the word "bacon" but the way the letters are styled do not match the close-up. more
Quotes:
Patrick 'Pat' Quid: Madam, just because I drive a truck does not make me a truck driver. more
Movie Connections:
References Lawrence of Arabia (1962) more

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12 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
Quality movie, 29 July 2004
Author: lrc81 from Lisbon, Portugal

Stacy Keach plays a truck driver, he and his best friend, a dingo, are taking meat to Perth, along the way he wonders about other drivers and their life, a way to keep himself distracted. A suspicious green van catches his attention, later on when he finds out that murders have been taking place, he immediately associates them with the van. After watching the van's driver bury a couple of bags in the middle of the desert he has no more doubts about the relation of it to the murders. Braking "truckers" rules he picks up a hitchhiker, Pam (Jamie Lee Curtis), they'll complement each other perfectly, sharing murder theories among other things. The police ends up suspecting Pat (Stacy Keach) so Pam believes that the only way for him to prove is innocence is to find the real killer but he finds them first and kidnaps her, or is it that she went by her own free will?

Nice thriller, the acting as you can expect is pretty good. Keach and Curtis create a believable bond, a mutual crush develops but the age difference is a problem. The script is fairly intelligent and certainly effective. Keach's character is full of theories and anecdotes, which keeps the movie interesting at moments where all you see is the Australian outback. Well worth watching.

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