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Set in the Australian outback and based on true events, this is the story of a group of three aboriginal children who risked everything to return to their home.

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ProducerJohn Winter, Phillip Noyce, Christine Olsen

EAN5017188888356

eBay Product ID (ePID)3960216

Product Key Features

ActorDavid Gulpilil, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Ningali Lawford, Kenneth Branagh, Everlyn Sampi

Film/TV TitleRabbit Proof Fence

DirectorPhillip Noyce

LanguageEnglish

Run Time90 Mins

Release Year2003

FormatDVD

FeaturesAudio Commentary-1. Phillip Noyce-Director\Documentary-1. Following the Rabbit Proof Fence

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

CertificatePG

Country/Region of ManufactureAustralia

ComposerPeter Gabriel

Executive ProducerKathleen McLaughlin, Jeremy Thomas, David Elfick

Additional InformationSet in Australia in 1931, RABBIT-PROOF FENCE tells the story of a government policy that required "half-caste" children (whose mothers were Aboriginal and whose fathers were white) to be taken from their homes by the authorities to be trained to work as servants. Based on the true story of Molly Craig, Philip Noyce's film of small gestures and few words follows the odyssey of three young girls who escaped from the government's training facility and, using the country's long stretches of rabbit-proof fences as their guide, walked 1500 miles to get back home.<BR>Told squarely from Molly's point of view, RABBIT-PROOF FENCE also highlights the Australian government's treatment of Aboriginies by A.O. Neville (Kenneth Branagh), the legal guardian of the country's indigenous people. His plan to "breed out" the Aboriginal blood of the half-castes is marked by a cool calculation and moral blindness that stands out in sharp contrast to Molly's spiritual and intuitive relationship to the people and places she encounters on her journey.

ReviewsTotal Film - ...This is the best kind of movie, the kind that comes back to haunt you months after watching it. Resonating and, above all, reminding. Go see..., Sight and Sound - ...Noyce and his screen writer Christine Olsen tell the shameful story straight letting the pathos emerge naturally from the unfolding events..., New York Times - ...[A] sturdy, touching movie....The movie becomes a paean to the beauty of the Australian countryside and the decency of most of the common people who aid the fugitives..., Los Angeles Times - ...The young actresses who play the fugitives, all newcomers, shoulder the story confidently..., Entertainment Weekly - ...Spare and unyielding....Noyce honors the story best by standing back. Noyce lets the landscape and the untrained actresses own the screen..., Box Office - ...Noyce has tailored an epic tale into a lean, economical movie....He directs with sensitivity and an impressive level of objectivity...

ScreenwriterChristine Olsen

AuthorDoris Pilkington Garimara

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1

Movie/TV TitleRabbit Proof Fence