Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) 8/10

Starring : Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil, Kenneth Branagh
Director : Phillip Noyce
Running Time : 91 mins

After being taken from their homes and sent to a camp where they are to be trained as domestic workers, Molly Craig (Sampi) escapes with her little sister and cousin, and they begin a journey across the Australian outback in order to find their way back home, all the while being chased by government officials who want to get them back so they won’t look so incompetent.

This is a very emotional movie, which I would have given perhaps a nine if the last half hour hadn’t have seemed so rushed. The tale is simple, but made ever more evocative by it being based on a true life story, and the three main girls do a nice job of making us feel for them and want them to succeed in getting away from the corrupt government which pretty much wants to enslave them.

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