What was the name of the 1988 film starring Meryl Streep about the Australian Dingo baby murder case
"her daughter missing, cries out, ""The dingo took my baby!"" Dingoes ate my baby ""A dingo ate my baby"" is a phrase attributed to Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton and also to Meryl Streep's depiction of Chamberlain in the movie ""Evil Angels"" (1988) (also known as ""A Cry in the Dark"") about the death of Azaria Chamberlain, an Australian baby girl who died in 1980 at Uluru in the Northern Territory. The Chamberlain family had been holidaying at Uluru when their daughter was taken from their tent by a dingo. The authorities disbelieved the family's story about a dingo, and prosecuted and won"
"a wide audience; she co-starred with Jack Nicholson in the dramas ""Heartburn"" (1986) and ""Ironweed"" (1987), in which she sang onscreen for the first time since the television movie ""Secret Service"" (1977). In ""Evil Angels"" (1988), she played Lindy Chamberlain, an Australian woman who had been convicted of the murder of her infant daughter despite claiming that the baby had been taken by a dingo. Filmed in Australia, Streep won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, a Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best"
"think I hear a dingo eating your baby"". It also was referenced in the ""Rugrats"" film ""The Rugrats Movie"" when, after the children go missing, a news reporter briefly asks Didi if it was true that a dingo ate her baby. In 2010, Australian rock band The Paradise Motel released the album ""Australian Ghost Story"", a concept album about the disappearance and death of Azaria Chamberlain. Death of Azaria Chamberlain Azaria Chamberlain (11 June 1980 – 17 August 1980) was an Australian 2-month-old baby girl who was killed by a dingo on the night of 17 August 1980 on a"
"The Dingo The Dingo is a 1923 Australian silent film directed by Kenneth Brampton. It is a melodrama about a drunken scoundrel who causes trouble. It is considered a lost film. ""The Dingo"" is a nickname for Harry Selby, a drunken thief from the city who loves animals and little children. He marries a country girl, Molly, despite knowing that she loves someone else, Dr John Stirling. Selby becomes passionately jealous of Stirling's attentions to Molly and is encouraged in this by Oily Allen. Harry breaks into Dr Stirling's house and discovers a photograph of his wife. He picks it"
"Hogan's international film career. Following the success of ""Crocodile"" Dundee Hogan starred in the sequel, ""Crocodile Dundee II"" in 1988. 1988 also saw the release of the drama ""Evil Angels"" (released outside of Australia and New Zealand as ""A Cry in the Dark"") about the Lindy Chamberlain saga, in which a baby was taken by a dingo at Ayers Rock and her mother was accused of having murdered the child. Nicole Kidman began appearing in Australian children's TV and film in the early 1980s – including starring roles in ""BMX Bandits"" and ""Bush Christmas"". During the 1980s, she appeared in"
"photo play everyone knew Australia would produce sooner or later."" However the film appears to have only been given a small release and it is unlikely it was a commercial success. The Dingo The Dingo is a 1923 Australian silent film directed by Kenneth Brampton. It is a melodrama about a drunken scoundrel who causes trouble. It is considered a lost film. ""The Dingo"" is a nickname for Harry Selby, a drunken thief from the city who loves animals and little children. He marries a country girl, Molly, despite knowing that she loves someone else, Dr John Stirling. Selby becomes"
"was reported that Lindy Chamberlain dressed her baby in a black dress. This provoked negative opinion, despite the trends of the early 1980s, during which black and navy cotton girls' dresses were in fashion, often trimmed with brightly coloured ribbon, or printed with brightly coloured sprigs of flowers. Since the Chamberlain case, proven cases of attacks on humans by dingoes have been discussed in the public domain, in particular dingo attacks on Fraser Island (off the Queensland coast), the last refuge in Australia for isolated pure-bred wild dingoes. In the wake of these attacks, it emerged that there had been"
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"Michael Chamberlain as an accessory after the fact. Ultimately, the courts found both parents innocent after being sent to court three different times, and the coroner found Azaria's death was ""the result of being attacked and taken by a dingo"". The phrase ""A dingo ate my baby"" was not actually used by Chamberlain, nor is it used in the film. Chamberlain is reported to have called out to her husband, ""A dingo took my baby!"", or either ""That dog's got my baby!"" or ""My God, My God, a dingo has got my baby!"" In the film, Streep's character, upon discovering"
"with Streep in ""Plenty"", is quite good as a humble, bewildered sort who finally breaks under cross-examination."" ""Variety"" made note of the ""intimate, incredible detail in the classy, disturbing drama."" In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its ""Ten Top Ten""—the best ten films in ten ""classic"" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. ""A Cry in the Dark"" was acknowledged as the ninth best film in the courtroom drama genre. The line from the Lindy Chamberlain character, ""the dingo took my baby"", usually incorrectly quoted as ""a dingo ate my baby"", became part of"
"from their tent, never to be seen again. Investigators observed prints on the floor of the tent and bloodstained clothing belonging to the child was later discovered amongst rocks near the base of Uluru. The coronial inquest in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, in 1981 concluded that the baby had been taken by a dingo; however, this finding was overturned by another inquest in Darwin in 1982. Lindy Chamberlain was subsequently tried for murder and given a life sentence, while Michael was convicted of being an accessory after the fact and given an eighteen-month suspended sentence. During her imprisonment in Darwin,"
"Role (Judy Davis) and Costume Design (Terry Ryan) categories. It was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival. After the film's 1987 U.S. theatrical run, the film was released on videocassette and laserdisc by MCA Home Video. The film was released through Australia-based Umbrella Entertainment on 8 January 2010 as an all-region PAL disc. The film is rated R13 in New Zealand. ""Kangaroo"" grossed $68,978 at the box office in Australia. Kangaroo (1987 film) Kangaroo is a 1987 Australian drama film directed by Tim Burstall and based on a novel of the same name by D. H. Lawrence. In"
"The Dreaming (1988 film) The Dreaming is a 1988 Australian horror film. After an aboriginal tomb is opened by archaeologist (Arthur Dignam), his daughter, a doctor (Penny Cook) treats a young aboriginal girl (Kristina Nehm) in a hospital emergency room for some unspecified injury. The girl dies and immediately afterwards the attending doctor begins to have bad dreams and waking visions of a horrible past event in aboriginal history. These threatening images from the Dreamtime involve a group of whalers who came ashore two centuries earlier to rape and murder a defenseless aboriginal tribe. This event formed a taint or"
"the pediatrician wife of a psychiatrist baffled by Basil Fawlty’s behavior, ""The Crezz"", ""Catweazle"", and in the 1980s with ""Doctor Who"" story ""Arc of Infinity"" and the World War Two drama ""Tenko"". She appeared as the Queen in the BBC sitcom ""The Black Adder"" (1983), with Rowan Atkinson as her son in the title role, and as Mrs. Palmer in ""Solo"" (1981–82), another comedy, this time with Felicity Kendal in the lead as her daughter. She remained active until the late 1990s, appearing in ""Agatha Christie's Poirot"", the films ""The Girl in a Swing"" (1988) and ""Four Weddings and a"
"Kangaroo (1987 film) Kangaroo is a 1987 Australian drama film directed by Tim Burstall and based on a novel of the same name by D. H. Lawrence. In 1922, an English writer (Colin Friels) migrates to Australia with his wife (Judy Davis). There he resists joining both a paramilitary group and a socialist group, is caught in a riot, sees a death and loses love and friendship. In 1972 it was announced the novel would be filmed starring Dirk Bogarde but this did not eventuate. In 1981 Tim Burstall announced he would make the film and he had Leo McKern"
"an ""open"" finding. At a fourth inquest held on 12 June 2012, Coroner Elizabeth Morris delivered her findings that Azaria Chamberlain had been taken and killed by a dingo. After being released, Lindy Chamberlain was paid $1.3 million for false imprisonment and an amended death certificate was issued immediately. Numerous books have been written about the case. The story has been made into a TV movie, a feature film, ""Evil Angels"" (released outside Australia and New Zealand as ""A Cry in the Dark""), a TV miniseries, a play by Brooke Pierce, a concept album by Australian band The Paradise Motel"
"Kino Lorber on July 25, 2017. Silkwood Silkwood is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols and starring Meryl Streep, Cher and Kurt Russell. The screenplay by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen was inspired by the life of Karen Silkwood. Silkwood was a nuclear whistleblower and a labor union activist who died in a car collision while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked. In real life, her death gave rise to a 1979 lawsuit, ""Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee"", led by attorney Gerry Spence. The jury rendered its verdict of $10 million in damages"
"Death of Azaria Chamberlain Azaria Chamberlain (11 June 1980 – 17 August 1980) was an Australian 2-month-old baby girl who was killed by a dingo on the night of 17 August 1980 on a family camping trip to Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) in the Northern Territory. Her body was never found. Her parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, reported that she had been taken from their tent by a dingo. Lindy Chamberlain was, however, tried for murder and spent more than three years in prison. She was released when a piece of Azaria's clothing was found near a dingo"
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"Azaria Chamberlain inquest. Coroner Elizabeth Morris said that the new evidence in relation to dingo attacks on infants and young children had helped convince her to reopen the investigation. After 32 years of intense media interest and public excoriation, the Chamberlains stated they remained unsatisfied with bare acquittal and presumed innocence, and were keen to finally, and definitively, determine how their daughter died. On 12 June 2012, an Australian coroner made a final ruling that a dingo dog took baby Azaria Chamberlain from a campsite in 1980 and caused her death. Coroner Elizabeth Morris apologised to the Chamberlain family while"
"The First Kangaroos The First Kangaroos is a 1988 British–Australian made for TV sports film directed by Frank Cvitanovich and starring Dennis Waterman, Chris Haywood and Dominic Sweeney. It depicts the 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, the first-ever such tour by the Australia national rugby league team. ""The First Kangaroos"" drew complaints from the Granddaughter of British rugby league legend Albert Goldthorpe for its villainous depiction of him. Some scenes featured the grandstand of ""Arlington Oval"" in the inner-western Sydney suburb Dulwich Hill which hosted women's competitions of the 1938 British Empire Games. Both Wayne Pearce (Balmain Tigers) and"
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"of $6,472,990 domestically with 502 theaters being its widest release. ""Star 80"" maintains an 82% ""fresh"" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 11 reviews. Star 80 Star 80 is a 1983 American film based on, though fictionalized somewhat, ""Playboy"" model Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered by her husband Paul Snider in 1980. The film was directed by Bob Fosse, and stars Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts. Hugh Hefner sued the producers of the picture, stemming from his disapproval of how he was depicted in the film. In accordance with the family's wishes, Dorothy's mother is never mentioned by name in"
"Lindy Chamberlain's book of the same name. The incident was transmuted from tragedy to morbid comedy material for American shows such as ""Seinfeld"", ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"" and ""The Simpsons"", and ""became deeply embedded in American pop culture"" with phrases such as ""A dingo's got my baby!"" serving as ""a punchline you probably remember hearing before you knew exactly what a dingo was."" The incident was referenced in the ""Simpsons"" episode, ""Bart vs. Australia"", where Bart receives a phone call from Australia about a $900 phone bill that he had caused. Before hanging up the phone Bart says, ""Hey, I"
"in film and television, and promoted the Generation One ""Hand Across Australia"" which was a promotion for Indigenous equality. He collaborated with Richard Walley to create a controversial ""Welcome to Country"" ceremony in Perth in 1976, after dancers from the Pacific islands would not perform without one. Dingo's film career began in the early 1980s and he appeared regularly on screen through the 1990s. He appeared in Bruce Beresford's 1987 drama ""The Fringe Dwellers"" and worked on the 1988 docu-drama biopic ""Tudawali"". He had a major supporting role in the international comedy blockbuster ""Crocodile Dundee II"" in 1988. He appeared"
"largely become a character actor, and was based in London. She starred in a supporting role in the 1980 Walt Disney-produced horror film, ""The Watcher in the Woods"", alongside Bette Davis, after having been asked by British director John Hough, a longtime admirer of her work. After an appearance in the British television film ""Red Monarch"" (1983), she played the mother of murdered ""Playboy"" model Dorothy Stratten (played by Mariel Hemingway) in the biopic ""Star 80"" (1983). She also appeared as the mother of Sigmund Freud in the comedy ""The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud"" (1984) with Carol Kane and"
"and an opera, ""Lindy"", by Moya Henderson. The initial coronial inquest into the disappearance was opened in Alice Springs on 15 December 1980 before magistrate Denis Barritt. On 20 February 1981, in the first live telecast of Australian court proceedings, Barritt ruled that the likely cause was a dingo attack. In addition to this finding, Barritt also concluded that, subsequent to the attack, ""the body of Azaria was taken from the possession of the dingo, and disposed of by an unknown method, by a person or persons, name unknown"". The Northern Territory Police and prosecutors were dissatisfied with this finding."
"one."" The First Kangaroos The First Kangaroos is a 1988 British–Australian made for TV sports film directed by Frank Cvitanovich and starring Dennis Waterman, Chris Haywood and Dominic Sweeney. It depicts the 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, the first-ever such tour by the Australia national rugby league team. ""The First Kangaroos"" drew complaints from the Granddaughter of British rugby league legend Albert Goldthorpe for its villainous depiction of him. Some scenes featured the grandstand of ""Arlington Oval"" in the inner-western Sydney suburb Dulwich Hill which hosted women's competitions of the 1938 British Empire Games. Both Wayne Pearce (Balmain Tigers)"
"Star 80 Star 80 is a 1983 American film based on, though fictionalized somewhat, ""Playboy"" model Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered by her husband Paul Snider in 1980. The film was directed by Bob Fosse, and stars Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts. Hugh Hefner sued the producers of the picture, stemming from his disapproval of how he was depicted in the film. In accordance with the family's wishes, Dorothy's mother is never mentioned by name in the movie, and the names of her sister and brother were altered. Other names were also changed due to legal concerns. The film was"
"were unenthusiastic. The Kangaroo Kid (film) The Kangaroo Kid is a 1950 Australian-American western film directed by Lesley Selander. In the 1880s, the Remington detective agency sends Tex Kinnane to Australia to track down a notorious gold robber and murderer called John Spengler. In Sydney, Tex makes friends with Baldy Muldoon and travels with him to the small town of Gold Star, where Baldy's wife runs the local saloon. Tex adopts a baby kangaroo and earns the name ""Kangaroo Kid"". He is hired as a stage coach driver and befriends barmaid Stella Grey, who offers to look after his kangaroo."