Backroads

Action, Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Phillip Noyce

Status Released

Release Date 1977-06-27

Storyline

Two strangers – one white, one black – steal a car in western NSW and head for the coast. Jack is abrasive, cunning and disparaging about Aborigines. Gary doesn’t really care – he just wants to escape. En route, they pick up Gary’s Uncle Joe, a French hitchhiker and a young woman who’s running away. Their petty crimes escalate as they go, heading towards disaster.