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1984
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- A Cry in the Dark admirably recreates the mass hysteria that overtook Australia as citizens argued passionately about the role of a mother in her baby's death. Streep and Neill ably portray pawns in a media frenzy captured by Australian director Fred Schepisi.
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"A Cry in the Dark" takes place in Australia and is based on the famous recent case of Lindy Chamberlain, the mother who said her baby daughter had been dragged away and killed by one of the wild Australian dogs named dingos.
While on vacation in the Australian outback, Seventh Day Adventist priest Michael Chamberlain (Sam Neill) and his wife, Lindy (Meryl Streep), discover that their baby, Azaria, is missing from the...
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- Fred Schepisi
- PG-13
- Meryl Streep
A CRY IN THE DARK attempts to recreate the divisive near hysteria that overtook much of Australia in the 1980s over the innocence or guilt of a young Australian mother whose baby was taken by a dingo during a vacation in the Outback.
- Fred Schepisi
- Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
- Meryl Streep, Sam Neill
Fred Schepisi’s A Cry in the Dark is an unremitting, almost magisterial vision of a horrific, true-to-life incident. Full Review | Aug 9, 2022
Nov 11, 1988 · A Cry in the Dark: Directed by Fred Schepisi. With Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Dale Reeves, David Hoflin. A mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.
- (11K)
- Biography, Drama
- Fred Schepisi
- 1988-11-11
Mar 16, 2001 · At the heart of "A Cry in the Dark" lies a true story so incredible that to have it made into a film could have tempted a sensational outcome of the most ridiculous proportions. A camping trip...
Excellent true-life drama from director and co-writer Fred Schepisi, adapting John Bryson's book "Evil Angels" with Robert Caswell, details the 1980 case of a nine-week-old baby allegedly carried off by a wild dingo at a camping site at Ayers Rock in the Northern territory of central Australia.
