

“Hasn't the weather been strange...could it be a warning?”
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$825,000
Revenue
$2,124,250

Dr. Whitburn
Brian Trenchard-Smith on THE LAST WAVE
Featurette
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.