A Cry in the Dark
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- Released
- 01/08/2004
- DVD Region
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2 (UK, Western Europe, Japan)
Also plays on multi-region DVD players
What region is right for me? - Film and TV Genre
- Drama, General
- Video Format
- PAL
Description
For this powerful, truth-based drama, Academy-Award winner Meryl Streep won the Cannes Film Festival and New York Film Critics Best Actress Awards along with her eighth Oscar nomination. Her work as Lindy, who lives the nightmare of seeing a dingo run off with her baby and then endures a travesty of a trial by the courts and media, is remarkable. Sam Neill stars as her tortured husband Michael. Director Fred Schepisi transforms true events into a riveting movie that will haunt you long after it has finished.
Plot Synopsis
Meryl Streep and Sam Neill star in this documentary style film adaptation of the true story of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, an Australian couple who lived the nightmare of losing their infant daughter during a family camping trip. When Lindy (Streep) spies a dingo nearby, authorities launch a frantic search, but all they find is a torn, bloodied garment. The press, distressed by the mother's seeming lack of emotion, and suspicious of her strict Seventh Day Adventist religious beliefs, begin to accuse her of murdering the baby. The sentiment against her begins to grow, and soon the whole continent is talking about the case in a malicious witch hunt. Despite the lack of evidence, Lindy Chamberlain is imprisoned; although investigators eventually reexamine her story, the damage is done: the innocent mother's relationship with her husband has been irreparably destroyed and she has spent over three years in prison for a crime she did not commit. This painful portrayal of the power of public opinion and political and emotional persecution is captured with steely intensity by Streep, she is captivating as the much-maligned victim of social injustice who is bolstered by her strong religious faith and stoic demeanour.
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Product Details
- Actors
- Director
- Fred Schepisi
- Audio Format
- Dolby Digital Mono - Polish
- Dolby Digital Surround - English
- Mono Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
- Dolby Digital Mono Spanish
- Dolby Digital Surround English French German Italian
- Subtitle Language
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- Greek
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Swedish
- Language
- English
- Year of release
- 1988
- Disc Features
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Selection
- Theatrical Trailer
- Chapter Selections
- Interactive Menu Screens
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Aspect Ratio
- 2.35:1
- 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
- 2.35 Wide Screen
- Film Format
- Anamorphic
- Media Format
- DVD-Video
- Film Rating (Australia)
- MA15+
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Film Rating (UK)
- 15
- Run Time (minutes)
- 116
- Tags
- Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- English
- German
- Cast & Crew
- Bruce Smeaton (Composer)
- Ian Baker (Director of Photography)
- Jill Bilcock (Editor)
- Menahem Golan (Executive Producer)
- Yoram Globus (Executive Producer)
- Verity Lambert (Producer)
- George Liddle (Production Designer)
- Fred Schepisi (Screenwriter)
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