Out Of It (1977)

Original title

Out of It

Directed by

Ken Cameron

Genre

drama

Country

Australia

Runtime

50 min

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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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