pay and Joey and Betty's baby on the way, they resort to stealing food from a local supermarket. The caper results in a grocery clerk being assaulted by the pair when he tries to prevent the robbery. Pete and Joey return to their apartment in the morning to find Betty gone and their possessions on the street, after the police came in search of them and their landlord evicted them as troublemakers. Broke, homeless, wanted by the police for theft and assault, and with Betty staying with her aunt and uncle, the pair decide to pawn the rented colour TV set for money in order to make it out to Western Canada. Pete convinces Joey that husbands leave their wives "all the time" and Joey agrees to leave Betty and her unborn child in Toronto, as she will slow them down. The film concludes much as it began, with Pete and Joey driving west in search of greener pastures. Cast Doug McGrath as Peter McGraw Paul Bradley as Joey Mayle Jayne Eastwood as Betty Cayle Chernin as Selina Nicole Morin as Nicole Pierre La Roche as "Frenchie" La Roche Don Steinhouse as Plant Co-worker Ted Sugar as Plant Co-worker Ron Martin as Plant Co-worker Production Goin' Down the Road was initially pitched to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as The Maritimers, a television drama. Donald Shebib received a $19,000 grant from the Canadian Film Development Corporation. The film was made on a budget of $85,000 (). Reception The film earned $150,000 () at the box office in its first two months. The New York Times stated that the film was "the most impressive new work of realist cinema in years." The film won the Best Feature Film and Best Actor awards at the 22nd Canadian Film Awards. Legacy This film has been designated and preserved as a "masterwork" by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada, a charitable non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the preservation of Canada's audio-visual heritage. The Toronto International Film Festival ranked it in the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time four times, in 1984, 1993, 2004 and 2015.<ref>"Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time ", The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2012, URL accessed 2 May 2015.</ref> In 2002, readers of Playback voted it the 5th greatest Canadian film of all-time. In 2010, Shebib announced that a sequel film was in production. Down the Road Again was released in October