Film

Wake in Fright 1971

Directed by Ted Kotcheff

  • Drama, Thriller
  • 109 min
  • R

Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

DramaThrilleraustraliabased on novel or bookgamblingbeeralcoholismteachermining townhuntdrunkennessaustralian outbackchristmaskangaroo
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  • Addiction
  • Animal harm

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