Backroads (1997)

Original title

Carreteras secundarias

Directed by

Emilio Martínez-Lázaro

Genre

comedy film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

15

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A father and his teenage son travel the Spanish backroads in a dilapidated car. They drift from one small town to another, scraping by and meeting locals along the way.

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What happens

Backroads (Spanish: Carreteras secundarias) is a 1997 road movie directed by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro and written by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, adapting the latter's novel Carreteras secundarias. It stars Antonio Resines, Fernando Ramallo, Maribel Verdú and Miriam Díaz Aroca. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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