Wake in Fright · LeviOsa

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Wake in Fright · LeviOsa

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Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.

DramaThriller1h 49m

🍅97%

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97%

Tomatometer

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83%

Popcornmeter

7.2

TMDB

Storyline

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

Trailers

10 videos

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Original Trailer

Original Trailer

Official Restoration Trailer

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Official Trailer

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Details

DirectorTed Kotcheff

ReleasedJul 21, 1971

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

$750K

Revenue

$371.7K

Parental guideRUS

Studios

NLT ProductionsGroup W

Cast

Donald Pleasence

Donald Pleasence

Doc Tydon

Gary Bond

Gary Bond

John Grant

Chips Rafferty

Chips Rafferty

Jock Crawford

Sylvia Kay

Sylvia Kay

Janette Hynes

Jack Thompson

Jack Thompson

Dick

Peter Whittle

Peter Whittle

Joe

Al Thomas

Tim Hynes

John Meillon

John Meillon

Charlie

John Armstrong

Atkins

Slim DeGrey

Slim DeGrey

Jarvis

Maggie Dence

Maggie Dence

Receptionist

Norm Erskine

Joe the Cook

Where to watch(NG)

Stream

Amazon Prime Video

fuboTV

Fandor

Amazon Prime Video with Ads

Shout! Factory Amazon Channel

Rent / Buy

Amazon Video

Apple TV Store

Google Play Movies

YouTube

Fandango At Home

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

6 fresh · 1 rotten

Critics consensus

“A disquieting classic of Australian cinema, Wake in Fright surveys a landscape both sun-drenched and ruthlessly dark.”

97% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

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Tom Milne

RTFinancial TimesMar 19, 2020

[Has some] fine photography of the Australian wilds, but also veers into melodrama.

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Derek Malcolm

RTGuardianMar 19, 2020

[It] will will not please the Australian Tourist Board. It may not even please Australians. But it ranks, along with Nicholas Roeg's Walkabout, as the most impressive piece of special pleading about the country I've seen.

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Margaret Hinxman

RTDaily Telegraph (UK)Mar 19, 2020

It's a remarkable film and I'm not at all happy with it.

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Sean Axmaker

RTStream on DemandJul 28, 2026

... the darkly comic chain of events that keep him stuck the Yabba looks less like a cruel joke by a trickster god and more like a hard lesson in self-awareness.

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Information

Title

Wake in Fright

Released

Jul 21, 1971

Rated

R

Region of Origin

Australia, United Kingdom

Original Audio

English

Runtime

1h 49m

Status

Released

Studios

NLT Productions, Group W

Tomorrow, When the War Began