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Roadgames (1981)

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Overview

Director:
Richard Franklin
Writers:
Everett De Roche (screenplay)
Everett De Roche (story)
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Release Date:
February 1981 (USA) 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
User Comments:
Hitchock-esque White Line Fever. more

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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Quotes:
Patrick 'Pat' Quid: [offering a treat to his dog Boswell] Hors d'ouevre, Boswell? more
Movie Connections:
References "The Flintstones" (1960) more

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Hitchock-esque White Line Fever., 2 May 2004
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Author: Pepper Anne from Orlando, Florida

Roadgames is a pretty good thriller about truck driver Quid (Stacey Keach) follows what he suspects to be a serial killer along the Southern Australia interstates. Having only the circumstantial clues and never actually witnessing any of the murders, Quid isn't sure whether this guy really is the serial killer that police reports on the radio indicate, or whether it is Quid's psychological games about guessing what people on the road could be like when he passes a noisy family in a station wagon and guesses the occupation of the driver. Quid is pushed nearly to the brink of insanity as he tries to distinguish between fact and fiction as he and the green van play cat and mouse all over the outback.

It's a really good thriller and better than say, The Hitcher, another movie involving a serial killer along deserted highways that torments a driver. But the difference is that Quid has limited interaction with his suspect, because the whole time you're left guessing whether the guy in the green van is really a killer at all, or whether it was just another one of Quid's games meant to entertain himself, but gone totally out of control. The movie has very Hitchcock-esque traits such as building Quid up from a normal man to one that starts to develop something almost like a split personality as he drives himself crazy trying to figure out the deal his adversary. Or the way that everyone in town seems to turn against Quid even though he is supposed to be the innocent person here. It's also good with some of that good Stacey Keach sarcasm and delivery. I think he fit the part of Quid quite nicely. Despite the fact that the story starts to lose momentum towards the end (but not the conclusion), it is nonetheless, a pretty good thriller.

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