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While driving in heavy rain on a deserted road, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) pulls over to pick up a hitchhiker (Rutger Hauer). Halsey quickly regrets his decision to stop as the hitcher puts a knife to Jim’s throat and tells him to pass a car on the side of the road. Its occupants have already been brutally slaughtered by the ominous stranger. Now a bloody game cat-and-mouse is about to be played out on these desolate stretches of Texas highway, and every car that passes, and every soul that drives those roads, will have death, destruction, and mayhem along for the ride.There is depth in the ambiguities of The Hitcher that makes the film rewarding beyond its powerfully visceral action and that lends to its cult nature.
Christopher Nolan counts The Hitcher among his favourite films "the criminally underappreciated Rutger Hauer is in his finest and most influential Euro-psycho performance this side of Blade Runner.”
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Hollywood Avondale, 20 St. Georges Road Avondale,Auckland, New Zealand
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