Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- Australia
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.
- australia
- truck
- serial killer
- hitchhiker
- truck driver
- suspenseful
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Stacy Keach
Patrick 'Pat' Quid
Jamie Lee Curtis
Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
Marion Edward
Madeleine 'Frita' Day
Grant Page
Smith or Jones
- Thaddeus Smith — Policeman 'Abbott'
- Steve Millichamp — Policeman 'Costello'
- Alan Hopgood — Lester
- John Murphy — Benny Balls
- Bill Stacey — Captain Careful
- Robert Thompson — Sneezy Rider
- Ed Turley — Roadhouse Proprietor
- Angelica La Bozzetta — Young Hitchhiker
- Colin Vancao — Fred Frugal
- Paul Harris — Frugal Son
- Rochelle Harris — Frugal Daughter
- Directed
- Richard Franklin
- Written
- Everett De Roche
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 217 ratings
- Studio
- Essaness Pictures, GUO, Quest Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
