Rabbit-Proof Fence
Western Australia, 1931. Government policy includes taking half-caste children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, "to save them from themselves." Molly, Daisy, and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are 14, 10, and 8) arrive at their Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly's lead. For days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the regional constabulary. Their pursuers take orders from the government's "chief protector of Aborigines," A.O. Neville, blinded by Anglo-Christian certainty, evolutionary world view and conventional wisdom. Can the girls survive?
PG
HD
Adventure, Biography, Drama
2002
94 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : Rabbit-Proof Fence
- Duration : 94 min
- Languages : Aboriginal, English
- Writers : Doris Pilkington (book), Christine Olsen (screenplay)
- Directors : Phillip Noyce min
- Imdb : 7.5 (22452 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.8 (23382 votes)
- Actors : Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil
Movie Storyline
Western Australia, 1931. Government policy includes taking half-caste children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, "to save them from themselves." Molly, Daisy, and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are 14, 10, and 8) arrive at their Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly's lead. For days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the regional constabulary. Their pursuers take orders from the government's "chief protector of Aborigines," A.O. Neville, blinded by Anglo-Christian certainty, evolutionary world view and conventional wisdom. Can the girls survive?