Back Roads (1981)
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For his follow-up to 1979's Academy Award-winning Norma Rae, director Martin Ritt re-teams with that film's star, Sally Field, for this gritty romantic road comedy. Reportedly Ritt's homage to Frank Capra's films of the 1930s, Back Roads stars Field as Amy Post, a no-nonsense prostitute in the deep South struggling with the fact that she gave up her only child for adoption. When Amy first encounters the recently unemployed Elmore Pratt (Tommy Lee Jones), she is anything but fond of the drifter. But after taking to the road together with dreams of California, the two societal misfits find themselves falling for each other. Ritt and Field would team together once again four years later in another romantic comedy set in the South, Murphy's Romance. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 104 mins
Complete Cast:
- Sally Field - Amy Post
- David Keith - Mason
- Michael Vincente Gazzo - Tazio
- M. Emmet Walsh - Arthur
- Nell Carter - Waitress
- Bill Holliday - Isaac
- Woody Watson - Larry
- Henry Slate - Grover
- David Powladge - Fight Announcer
- Eliott Keener - Willis
- Billy Jayne - The Boy Thief
- David Dahlgren - Mel
- Eric Laneuville - Pinball Wizard
- Jim Bailey - Billy
- Bruce M. Fischer - Ezra
- Tony Ganios - Bartini
- Royce D. Applegate - Father
- Tommy Lee Jones - Elmore Pratt
- Miriam Colon - Angel
- Dan Shor - Spivey
- Barbara Babcock - Rickey's Mom
- Alex Colon - Enrique
- John Wilmot - Ed
- Diane Summerfield - Liz
- Ralph Seymour - Gosler
- Lee Mc Laughlin - Deputy
- John Dennis Johnston - Gilly
- Brian Frishman - Bleitz
- Fred Baldwin - Gordy
- Richard Boyle - Ernest
- Lee de Broux - Red
- John M. Jackson - Merle
- Don "Red" Barry - Pete
- Director(s):
- Martin Ritt
- Writer(s):
- Gary de Vore
- Producer(s):
- Ronald Shedlo
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