Rabbit-Proof Fence

    Rabbit-Proof Fence
    2002

    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

    Recommendations

    • 100

      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.

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