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Mood:
- BleakDisturbing
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Plot:
- Culture ClashFish Out of WaterLife Turned Upside DownLife is a BitchMisfitSocial RelationsInnocence LostAlcohol Abuse more...
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Genres:
- DramaIndependent
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Time/Period:
- 70s
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Place:
- AustraliaWilderness
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Wake in Fright, 1971
English
Australia, USA
Profile of Wake in Fright
The mood of Wake in Fright is disturbing and bleak. The plot centers around a life turned upside-down, culture clash, and social relations. It is a drama and independent movie. In approach, Wake in Fright is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in the wilderness. Wake in Fright is set in Australia. It is based on a book.
Summary of Wake in Fright
Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left...
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Australia, USA |
| Release date: | 13 October 1971 |
| Runtime: | 114 min |
Cast and Crew
as 'Doc' Tydon
as John Grant
as Jock Crawford
as Janette Hynes
