Out Of It (1977)
- Original title
- Out of It
- Directed by
- Ken Cameron
- Country
- Australia
- Rating
- 10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Three unemployed friends flee north after a robbery goes wrong. The film follows their journey as they drift through the Australian landscape.
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What happens
Out of It is a 1977 Australian film created by Ken Cameron. It is a road movie where three unemployed friends head north after a robbery went wrong. Barbara Aylsen of Filmnews said "As a portrait of the vacuum that is often euphemistically called youth it's nostaliga (sic) if you care to remember, and an insight if you want to find out." Sandra Hall, writing for the Bulletin, called it "a nicely ironic story about three likable bumblers caught up in petty crime on the outskirts of F. J. Holden country." When it aired on Channel Ten in 1980 Don Groves wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald "On a tiny budget ($23,000), writer-director Ken Cameron has achieved a remarkably high standard of film-making." In 1986 it was showcased on The Cutting Room where the Age's Judith Fox called it "an essay on the Aussie loser, a road movie which investigates the loss of focus of three youths as a journey in itself." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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