# Déviation mortelle (1981)

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**Original title**: *Roadgames*
**Runtime**: 101 min
**Genres**: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
**Directed by**: Richard Franklin
**Written by**: Everett De Roche
**Starring**: Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward, Grant Page, Thaddeus Smith, Steve Millichamp

> *The truck driver plays games. The hitchhiker plays games. And the killer is playing the deadliest game of all!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

The lonely Stuart Highway, dawn. A kookaburra’s laugh echoes off sun-baked tarmac.

A long-haul trucker spies a white van tailing his rig, its taillights blinking like predator eyes.

A taut, sun-fried chase from dusk until the next dawn, via fuel-stops and roadhouses only ghosts visit.

**Mood tags**: neon-soaked, paranoid, raw

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