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Roadgames

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Australia · 1981
Rated PG · 1h 41m
Director Richard Franklin
Starring Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward, Grant Page
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Pat Quid is a lonely truck driver who picks up a free-spirited hitchhiker (Jamie Lee Curtis) on a long haul ride through the Australian outback. But somewhere up ahead is a mysterious serial killer who uses young female hitchhikers as bait to lure victims on the desolate Australian highway.

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The New York Times by

Jamie Lee Curtis plays the jiggly hitchhiker he picks up, which is one reason he calls her Hitch. Another reason, according to a pretentious statement by the director, Richard Franklin, is to pay tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, who should be twirling.

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The Guardian by Luke Buckmaster

One terrific moment in which Pat sees what he believes are the killer's shoes underneath a toilet stall door and berates him while Pamela climbs into the green van outside is reminiscent of another scene that arrived years later and was also labelled "Hitchcockian" – the footsteps down the hallway confrontation in the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men.

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The A.V. Club by Nick Schager

Stacy Keach engages in highway warfare in Road Games, an Australian thriller that drums up suspense from its assured plotting and direction, and generates humor from its star’s charismatic lead performance...Taut all the way through to its well-staged finale, it’s a superior genre import—and one that also features, in Quid’s silent travel partner Boswell, the finest big-screen performance ever by a dingo.

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