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Strangerland (2015)

Strangerland poster
Directed by
Kim Farrant
Genre
drama film
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 52m
Rated
R
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 283 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family moves to a remote Australian town. Their two teenage children disappear during a dust storm. The parents struggle with the police investigation and their own strained relationship.

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What happens

Strangerland is a 2015 drama suspense film directed by Kim Farrant in her directorial debut, and written by Michael Kinirons and Fiona Seres. The film stars Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes, and Hugo Weaving. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 23 January 2015. The film did not have a theatrical release in its native Australia, but did receive a limited release in cinemas in the United States on 10 July 2015 by Alchemy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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