Wake in fright [videorecording] / NLT Productions & Group W Films present ; screenplay, Evan Jones ; produced by George Willoughby ; directed by Ted Kotcheff.
Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Gary Bond, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle. Based on the novel by Kenneth Cook. Originally released as a motion picture in 1971. Special features include commentary, To the Yabba and back, Q&A with Ted Kotcheff at the 2009 TIFF, Who needs art?, Chips Rafferty obituary, TV spot, trailers.
Summary:
The story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba, plans to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, Australia. But, as his one night stretches to five, he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left.
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