Backlash

Argue is a marijuana-smoking, racist, sexist cop assigned as punishment to escort a female aboriginal prisoner back to an isolated outback community where she is accused of murdering a man by emasculating him. Accompanying the pair is Carides, an idealistic young police officer and law student. Along the way their car breaks down, and they are forced to take shelter against the heat in an abandoned sheep-shearing station. Gradually the two police officers come to understand their prisoner. BACKLASH is largely improvised, with varying success, though when it works it is startlingly good. Only an embarrassing performance by Smith as the dead man's widow and some tech...