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12/30/06 05:46 AM
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 132 Fresh: 116 Rotten:16 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Consensus: Visually beautiful and well-acted, Rabbit-Proof Fence tells a compelling true-life story. more
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Synopsis:
Set 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... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Ningali Lawford, David Gulpilil, Jason Clarke, Deborah Mailman, Kenneth Branagh
Director: Phillip Noyce
Screenwriter: Christine Olsen
Producer: Phillip Noyce, Christine Olsen, John Winter
Composer: Peter Gabriel
Screenwriter: Christine Olsen
Producer: Phillip Noyce, Christine Olsen, John Winter
Composer: Peter Gabriel
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02/09/06 03:16 AM
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12/15/03 05:20 PM
Plays like two fingers up at a shameful chapter in recent Antipodean times, at those responsible and at the way it has all been forgotten.
11/25/02 02:59 PM
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11/19/02 08:35 AM
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11/12/02 08:37 AM
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10/27/02 08:36 AM
Stands as a powerful, worthy testimony to the suffering of the stolen generations.
10/21/02 08:34 AM
Top Critic [Director Phillip] Noyce shows their awful, eventually uplifting journey without flinching, and the arid Australian wilderness is a co-star of the film.
02/08/08 12:36 PM
Such an amazing true story leaves many opportunities for overblown melodrama, but Noyce's naturalistic restraint is what makes the film resonate so strongly.
09/17/07 12:42 PM
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05/26/06 03:16 AM
Top Critic Packs such an emotional wallop that it leaves you reeling...It may be one of the greatest movies ever made about the "white man's burden."
05/10/05 12:52 PM
The grievous truth of what was done to these people, rather than for them, hits viewers hard in the film's unforgettable conclusion....
01/15/05 10:41 PM
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05/19/04 08:16 AM
Adotando uma estrutura narrativa extremamente simples, Noyce conta a história de forma envolvente e emocionante.
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03/18/04 05:44 PM
There is value in bringing this dark passage in Australia's history to light.
12/03/03 09:37 AM
'Noyce logra su mejor trabajo hasta la fecha, demostrando que lo único que se necesita es la sensibilidad para contar una historia conmovedora y profundamente humana'
10/02/03 05:35 PM
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