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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
485 Views


This is Australia, yes?

- Where is Adelaide?

- Ask him for water!

Water! Drink!

We want water to drink.

You must understand.

Anyone can understand that.

We want a drink.

I can't make it any simpler.

Water. To drink.

The water hole has dried up.

Where do they keep the water?

Water!

Gape! Gape!

Who'll carry the leaves

I, said the wind

I'll carry the leaves

Look! Look!

The one set of values for "X"...

is 4-3...

equal to X-2.

Write 24, 48-

Seven fours are 28.

Eight fours are 32.

I can multiply 84 by 84.

I did it yesterday.

Divide 3,894-

This is one of my soldiers.

Twelve minus a third.

If your answer

is a decimal, what is-

Hey!

Put your shirt on.

He hasn't got his shirt on.

- He hasn't got a shirt.

- He can have mine.

...and. 0383 by. 025.

It wouldn't fit him.

Leaving Adelaide, Harry drives-

That's a soldier.

- Give him one. Don't be mean.

- No.

I expect he'd like to play.

He's never had any toys of his own.

We've got plenty.

Vito left his home at midday and cycled

towards his uncle's house 50 miles away.

After one hour,

traveling at ten miles an hour,

he stopped for a drink,

which took him-

Give me a piggyback!

Give me a piggyback!

No! No! No! No!

Watch out. He'll roast you

and eat you for dinner.

Hey, put me down!

Hey! Hey! Hey!

Hey! No!

I'm not coming down!

No! Get down! No!

Go on! It's great! Get up!

Go on! Get up! I did!

Pull! Don't just hang there.

No!

Jump! Jump!

Come on!

Grab me! Hurry!

It's my turn now!

Jump! Let me go!

Come on! Swing me!

Waldo's Motor Mart...

is on Allen Road

next to the hospital.

If you've got a good, clean,

low-mileage car you'd like to sell,

Waldo's Motor Mart will help you

turn that car into cash.

And now, back to "Night Beat. "

Good night.

I'll be all right

in the morning.

It got a bit sore from-

Oh, dear.

All right, let's go now.

Come out now!

And bring him with you.

Nothing can

ever be created or destroyed.

Come on. It's my turn!

It's my turn now!

Every man and every woman is a star.

What do we know-

By the telescope, a faint-

I told you to keep

your clothes on.

What?

No.

I'll show you how to do karate.

There's a pool down there.

So the boy said,

"I ought to be getting home from work. "

He lived with his mother

in a house on top of the hill.

She'd never spoken to him.

He'd never heard her say a word.

He thought she was dumb

and she was blind too.

But every evening

when he came up the hill,

he saw her sitting in the window,

and she was talking.

As soon as she heard his key

in the lock, she'd stop.

And when he got inside,

she wouldn't say a word.

So one evening he made up his mind

to hear what she was saying.

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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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