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Walkabout

A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier.

1971 · PG · 1h 35m

Directed by Nicolas Roeg

7.3

TMDB audience score
480 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Jenny Agutter
    Girl

  • Luc Roeg
    White Boy

  • David Gulpilil
    Black Boy

  • John Meillon
    Man

  • 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