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Synopsis: A privileged British family consisting of a mother, a geologist father and an adolescent daughter and son, live in Sydney, Australia. Out of circumstance, the siblings, not knowing exactly where they are, get stranded in the Outback by themselves while on a picnic. They only have with them the clothes on their backs - their school uniforms - some meagre rations of nonperishable food, a battery-powered transistor radio, the son's satchel primarily containing his toys, and a small piece of cloth they used as their picnic drop-cloth. While they walk through the Outback, sometimes looking as though near death, they come across an Australian boy who is on his walkabout, a rite of passage into manhood where he spends months on end on his own living off the land. Their largest problem is not being able to verbally communicate. The boy does help them to survive, but doesn't understand their need to return to civilization, which may or may not happen based on what the Australian boy ends up doi
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Director(s): Nicolas Roeg
Production: 20th Century Fox
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
GP
Year:
1971
100 min
475 Views


Pu, pu, pu, pu...

pu... pu... pu.

Do you want a drink?

No. I'm not sweating now.

Oh, come back!

I can't walk down there!

It isn't fair!

Oh, please make him come.

I'm not coming back.

We've got to get on.

It's late.

I'm going now.

Please, please try.

It can't be much further.

It's silly to give in now.

It's getting late.

We've got to go.

We can't waste time.

I'll carry you for a bit.

You're awake now.

I'm what?

If you're awake,

you should try and walk.

You should try and help me.

I'm trapped too.

Look! What's that?

- What?

- That.

Who'll sing my song

I, said the dove

As she sat on a bush

I'll sing your song

You said you were

too tired to walk.

It tastes lovely.

It's all right.

The birds are eating it.

It tastes like meat.

Today is Armistice Day.

At 12:
00, there will be

a three-minute silence...

followed by a service

of remembrance.

Meanwhile, we rejoin Captain Steele

and Dusty, counteragents,

in another episode of "Enemy. "

Does drinking give you

a big, red, fat nose?

- Why?

- I was just wondering.

I've only been

over this road once before-

Is that why Dad's nose

is all freckly?

I don't know.

I've got a fly

without any wings in my cap.

The bridge is blown!

Brake, Captain! brake!

Did our car crash?

You must look after your blazer.

It's got to last.

Yes, Skipper, I'm okay.

We don't want people thinking

we're a couple of tramps.

What people?

Did dad tear his clothes?

Perhaps that's why

he sent us on.

And you've put a hole

in your pocket.

When are we going there?

- Where?

- Back home.

In a few days.

That's the trouble

with all these series.

You always know the superhero's

gonna get away with it.

That's the trouble with Batman.

You always know he's gonna win

all the fights in the end.

That's the trouble

with all these series.

Even Bugs Bunny

wins all the time.

If we were superheroes,

we would definitely win.

Yes.

Are we superheroes?

I don't know.

I hope so.

So do I.

We're lost, aren't we?

No, of course not.

Don't. You'll ruin

your nice shoes.

What happened?

The birds ate it all.

But they couldn't

have drank all the water.

Is there any in the bottle?

No.

Why didn't you fill it up?

We should have

picked some fruit.

Which way are we going today?

I hope we find lots of sand.

I don't like climbing up

those hills much.

They make my legs ache.

I don't suppose it matters

which way we go.

We'll stay here.

Perhaps the water

will come back.

Where from?

You shouldn't walk about

in the sun.

It's bad for you.

Dad.

- I want a drink!

- Where are the others?

Quick, stop him!

He's getting away!

Uh, uh, uh, we're English!

English!

Do you understand?

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Edward Bond

Edward Bond (born 18 July 1934) is an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of some fifty plays, among them Saved (1965), the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK. Bond is broadly considered one among the major living dramatists but he has always been and remains highly controversial because of the violence shown in his plays, the radicalism of his statements about modern theatre and society, and his theories on drama. more…

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