Backroads (1977)

Directed by

Phillip Noyce

Genre

drama film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two strangers, a white man and an Aboriginal man, steal a car in western New South Wales and take a road trip along the coast. They drift through small towns and encounter trouble along the way.

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What happens

Backroads is a 1977 Australian film directed by Phillip Noyce. Two strangers – one white (Jack), one Aboriginal (Gary) – steal a car in western New South Wales and drive around the coast. The original characters came from a story by Adelaide writer John Emery, with whom Noyce had worked on a short film. Australian reviews of the film were mixed, and it opened commercially in only one cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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