Road Games

Road Games (1981)

  • 60% of users liked it
    (1,712 ratings)

Hollywood's Stacy Keach stars in Australia's Road Games. Keach is a truck driver who takes the law in his own hands to capture a serial killer. When the police fail to nab the murderer of hitchhikers, Keach takes to the road, conducting his own search. En route, he picks up hitcher Jamie Lee… More

PG, 1 hr. 40 min.
Directed By
Richard Franklin
Written By
Everett De Roche
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1981 Wide
On DVD
Jun 10, 2003
AVCO Embassy Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    Yanks and dingos and psychos in the Outback

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    Underrated psycho-thriller from down under.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Pierluigi P


    Richard Franklin, the same aussie who took over the fairly decent sequel of Psycho, Attempts to rehash 'Rear Window' as a road movie, bringing to mind another even more brilliant hitchcockian exercise, Steven Spielberg's Duel, which had a simpler but even more intense… More

  • Ken S


    A total diamond in the rough. Stacy Keach is amazing. Direction and cinematography are both top notch. To quote a friend "It's like Hitchcock and Tarantino had an Australian film baby."

  • AJ V


    A pretentious Hitchcockian thriller. I didn't care for it, but at least the actors were good.

  • David L


    While driving a load of freight across the godforsaken Australian outback from Melbourne to Perth spacey loner American truck driver Pat Quid (an endearingly eccentric portrayal by Stacy Keach) begins to suspect that the man (scruffy top Aussie stuntman Grant Page) in a van he keeps… More

  • Steve B


    Hitchcock protégé Richard Franklin takes Rear Window and sets it in the cab of a semi-trailer cruising across the Nullarbor Plain in Australia. Fascinating on its own, but fun to pick out all the Hitchcock references and in-jokes.

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