A mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.A mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.A mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 8 wins & 13 nominations total
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- Trivia(June 2008) Ranked #9 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Courtroom Drama".
- GoofsIn the end credits, the movie's copyright year is 1988. In Roman numerals, it would be MCMLXXXVIII. Instead, the year is MCMLXXXIII, 1983.
There may be some version with this error, but the theatrical version did have the correct "MCMLXXXVIII".
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Excellent true-life drama from director and co-writer Fred Schepisi, adapting John Bryson's book "Evil Angels" with Robert Caswell, details the 1980 case of a nine-week-old baby allegedly carried off by a wild dingo at a camping site at Ayers Rock in the Northern territory of central Australia. The infant's parents, the Chamberlains, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor and his wife, cooperate with the authorities and give all the necessary print and television interviews--they, in fact, do everything asked of them--but their misunderstood religion coupled with Lindy Chamberlain's stoic demeanor turns the tide of public opinion against them, from sympathetic to vengeful. Everything about this private couple soon becomes suspect under the microscope, including the meaning of their child's name, Azaria, to the discovery of baby clothes in the Outback that had cuts on them but no teeth marks. Meryl Streep's riveting performance as Lindy is quite remarkable. This is a woman who hides the sadness in her eyes behind sunglasses, who has grieved until reaching a kind of jaded resolve--she quickly becomes as suspicious of the badgering legal and media figures as the public is of her. Schepisi's docudrama-styled take on the tragedy sweeping Australia is marvelously rendered, and all the performers, especially Sam Neill as husband Michael, do powerful work. A classy production from (surprise!) Golan-Globus and Cannon Entertainment resulted in a much-deserved Oscar nomination for Streep, affecting a realistic Aussie accent (no surprise there). *** from ****
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- Evil Angels
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- Budget
- $15,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,908,797
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,561,793
- Nov 13, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $6,908,797
- Runtime2 hours
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- 2.39 : 1
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