Back Roads

Plot

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, Rovi

Cast

• Sally Field - Amy Post
• Tommy Lee Jones - Elmore Pratt
• David Keith - Mason
• Miriam Colon - Angel
• Michael Vincente Gazzo - Tazio

Dan Shor - Spivey; M. Emmet Walsh - Arthur; Barbara Babcock - Rickey's Mom; Nell Carter - Waitress; Alex Colon - Enrique; Royce D. Applegate - Father; Jim Bailey - Billy; Don "Red" Barry - Pete; Lee de Broux - Red; Bruce M. Fischer - Ezra; Tony Ganios - Bartini; John M. Jackson - Merle; John Dennis Johnston - Gilly; Eliott Keener - Willis; Lee Mc Laughlin - Deputy; David Powladge - Fight Announcer; Ralph Seymour - Gosler; Henry Slate - Grover; Diane Summerfield - Liz; Woody Watson - Larry; John Wilmot - Ed; Richard Boyle - Ernest; Eric Laneuville - Pinball Wizard; Bill Holliday - Isaac; Fred Baldwin - Gordy; David Dahlgren - Mel; Brian Frishman - Bleitz; Billy Jayne - The Boy Thief

Credit

Ron Wright - First Assistant Director, Martin Ritt - Director, Sid Levin - Editor, Henry Mancini - Composer (Music Score), Alan Bergman - Songwriter, Marilyn Bergman - Songwriter, Walter Scott Herndon - Production Designer, John A. Alonzo - Cinematographer, Ronald Shedlo - Producer, Gregory Garrison - Set Designer, Barry Thomas - Sound/Sound Designer, Gary de Vore - Screenwriter

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