Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

Directed by

Phillip Noyce

Genre

drama film, adventure film, biographical film, historical film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 390 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1931 Australia, three Aboriginal girls are taken from their families and placed in a government settlement. They escape and walk over 1,500 miles along a fence to return home, while authorities chase them.

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What happens

Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian epic drama film directed and produced by Phillip Noyce. It was based on the 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara, an Aboriginal Australian author. It is loosely based on the author's mother Molly Craig, aunt Daisy Kadibil, and cousin Gracie, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth, Western Australia, to return to their Aboriginal families. They had been removed from their families and placed there in 1931. The film follows the Aboriginal girls as they walk for nine weeks along 1,600 km (990 mi) of the Australian rabbit-proof fence to return to their community at Jigalong. They were pursued by white law enforcement officials and an Aboriginal tracker. The film explores the official child removal policy that existed in Australia between approximately 1905 and 1967. Its victims, who were taken from their families, now are called the "Stolen Generations". The soundtrack to the film, called Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence, is by English singer and songwriter Peter Gabriel. British producer Jeremy Thomas, who has a long connection with Australia, was executive producer of the film. He sold it internationally through his company HanWay Films. In 2005, the British Film Institute included this film in the BFI list of the "50 films one should see by the age of 14." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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