Synopsis
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.
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Cast
- Everlyn SampiMolly Craig
- Tianna SansburyDaisy Craig Kadibill
- Laura MonaghanGracie Fields
- David GulpililMoodoo
- Ningali LawfordMaud - Molly's Mother
- Myarn LawfordMolly's Grandmother
- Deborah MailmanMavis
- Jason ClarkeConstable Riggs
- Kenneth BranaghA. O. Neville
- Natasha WanganeenNina, Dormitory Boss
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Portland Oregonian
The result is a film that outrages and fills the viewer with poetry that's at once epic and intimate, scandalizing and life-affirming -- a real work of art. - 100
Time
This is a chase movie (Simon Legree after three Little Evas) across parched outback terrain, captured with rapturous authenticity by cinematographer Christopher Doyle. - 83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Noyce's movie is a testament to endurance -- the camera caresses the landscape -- instilling us with a respect and reverence for it, its harsh ways and the attachment to it that Australia's indigenous people hold. - 80
TV Guide Magazine
Thrilling, heart-wrenching tale of the real-life incredible journey. - 80
L.A. Weekly
Noyce wants us to feel the joy of the homecoming, but he's honest enough to show, in a coda that tells what happened to the girls after their break for home, how Rabbit Proof Fence finally must be more a tale of courage than of victory. - 80
The New York Times
Although the movie, adapted from a book by Doris Pilkington Garimara, pushes emotional buttons and simplifies its true story to give it the clean narrative sweep of an extended folk ballad, it never goes dramatically overboard. - 80
Variety
It succeeds emotionally in the cause of what seems to be its primary aim, to advance an attitudinal change in Australians not normally sympathetic to the aboriginal cause. - 75
New York Post
Noyce paces this amazing story well, and even if his young actors don't seem to have physically suffered as much as they would during such a long journey, he makes extremely good use of the bleak Outback scenery.