Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.
- australia
- suicide
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- hunter
- picnic
- wilderness
- camel
- tribe
- coming of age
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Robert McDarra — Man
- Peter Carver — No Hoper
- John Illingsworth — Young Man
- Hilary Bamberger — Woman
- Barry Donnelly — Australian Scientist
- Noeline Brown — German Scientist
- Carlo Manchini — Italian Scientist
- Directed
- Nicolas Roeg
- Written
- Edward Bond, Nicolas Roeg
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 467 ratings
- Studio
- Si Litvinoff Film Production, Max L. Raab Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
