The read
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 91% of the 111 2010s western movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Metacritic88/100
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
222 audience votes
Key crew
- Warwick ThorntonDirector
- Steven McGregorWriter
- David TranterWriter
- Michael YezerskiOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Hamilton MorrisSam Kelly
- Bryan BrownSergeant Fletcher
- Sam NeillFred Smith
- Thomas M. WrightMick Kennedy
- Ewen LeslieHarry March
- Matt DayJudge Taylor
- Gibson JohnArchie
- Natassia Gorey FurberLizzie
- Anni FinstererNell
- Tremayne DoolanPhilomac
- Trevon DoolanPhilomac
- Shanika ColeLucy
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Themes
australiarapecourt caseslaverybiblebased on true storyoutbreakdesertaustralian aboriginal1920sabuse of poweraustralian western