Australian movie with two American leads. Stacy Keach and his pet dingo long haul freight across the south of the continent. He's a peculiar philosophical sort who likes to quote poetry and insists "Just because I drive truck dosen't make me a truck driver."
Jamie Lee Curtis is an American diplomats daughter Keach picks up hitch hicking. A kind of Rear Window on the road we follow at a distance storylines of vehicles the rig alternately passes and is passed by. Keach pieces together that the driver of a van is a serial killer, or is he just being paranoid?
Hitchcock is an obvious influence here, we even see a Hitchcock magazine among Keach's possessions. The film has a real oddness to it, a very particular sense of humor, dry and at times surreal. It keeps you off balance so your not entirely sure what's happening, there are moments of the unexpected through out and it all culminates in a really fantastic ending. A real find. ***1/2
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