Released Date:
2003-01-31
Languages:
Aboriginal, English
Countries:
Australia
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (22452 Reviews)
Director:
Phillip NoyceDoris Pilkington (book)
Christine Olsen (screenplay)
Western Australia, 1931. Government policy includes taking half-caste children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, "to save them from themselves." Molly, Daisy, and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are 14, 10, and 8) arrive at their Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly's lead. For days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the regional constabulary. Their pursuers take orders from the government's "chief protector of Aborigines," A.O. Neville, blinded by Anglo-Christian certainty, evolutionary world view and conventional wisdom. Can the girls survive?
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