"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"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"did not examine the evidence to see whether it had been proved that a dingo took the baby. To do so would, in the words of Commissioner Morling, involve a ""fundamental error of reversing the onus of proof and requiring Mrs Chamberlain to prove her innocence"" (at p. 339 of the report). In acquitting the Chamberlains in 1988, the Supreme Court found that the alleged ""baby blood"" found in the Chamberlains' car, upon which the prosecution so heavily relied, could have been any substance, but was likely that of a sound deadening compound from a manufacturing overspray (which contained no"
"One True Thing One True Thing is a 1998 American drama film directed by Carl Franklin. It tells the story of a woman who is forced to put her life on hold in order to care for her mother who is dying of cancer. It was adapted by Karen Croner from the novel by Anna Quindlen. The novel and film are based on Anna Quindlen's real life struggle with the death of her mother, Prudence Pantano Quindlen, from ovarian cancer in 1972. The film stars Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt and Tom Everett Scott. Bette Midler sings the lead"
"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"
"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"
"Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton Alice Lynne ""Lindy"" Chamberlain-Creighton (née Murchison; born 4 March 1948) is a New Zealand-born woman who was wrongfully convicted in one of Australia's most publicised murder trials. Accused of killing her nine-week-old daughter, Azaria, while camping at Uluru (then usually known as Ayers Rock) in 1980, she maintained that she saw a dingo leave the tent where Azaria was sleeping. The prosecution case was circumstantial and depended on forensic evidence. Chamberlain was convicted on 29 October 1982, and her appeals to the Federal Court of Australia, and High Court of Australia, were dismissed. On 7 February 1986, after"
"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"
"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"
"to check on Azaria and is certain she sees a dingo with something in its mouth running off as she approaches. When she discovers the infant is missing, everyone joins forces to search for her, without success. It is assumed what Lindy saw was the animal carrying off the child, and a subsequent inquest rules her account of events is true. The tide of public opinion soon turns against the Chamberlains. For many, Lindy seems too stoic, too cold-hearted, and too accepting of the disaster that has befallen her. Gossip about her begins to swell and soon is accepted as"
"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"
"deposited the clothes for later recovery. On this basis and that of blood evidence of unknown origin found in the Chamberlains' car, the Chamberlains were prosecuted and convicted for the murder of their 2-month old baby, with Lindy sentenced to life imprisonment without parole and Michael Chamberlain suspended for three years as an accessory to murder. The stain believed to have been blood that was found in the Chamberlains' car was later determined to be most likely a sound-deadening compound from a manufacturing overspray. The prosecution's theory was that, in a five- to ten-minute absence from the camp fire, Lindy"
"Chamberlain Story"", which aired on the Seven Network. Australian composer Moya Henderson wrote the opera ""Lindy"" to a libretto by Judith Rodriguez. In 1990, the Rank Strangers' recording of their song ""Uluru"", which supported the Chamberlains and called for compensation to be paid to them, finished in the final five of the Australian Country Music Awards in Tamworth, New South Wales. Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton Alice Lynne ""Lindy"" Chamberlain-Creighton (née Murchison; born 4 March 1948) is a New Zealand-born woman who was wrongfully convicted in one of Australia's most publicised murder trials. Accused of killing her nine-week-old daughter, Azaria, while camping at"
"August 1980. All witnesses claimed to believe the Chamberlains' story. One witness, a nurse, also reported having heard a baby's cry after the time when the prosecution alleged Azaria had been murdered. Evidence was also presented that adult blood also passed the test used for foetal haemoglobin, and that other organic compounds can produce similar results on that particular test, including mucus from the nose and chocolate milkshakes, both of which had been present in the vehicle where Azaria was allegedly murdered. Engineer Les Harris, who had conducted dingo research for over a decade, said that, contrary to Cameron's findings,"
"Liver Eaters"" and ""Cannibal Orgy, Or The Maddest Story Ever Told"", the four-year-old black and white feature quickly faded from view. ""Spider Baby"" became known largely through the efforts of Los Angeles cult film resurrectionist Johnny Legend. The film tells the story of the Merrye family, who suffer from a degenerative disease. While ""Spider Baby"" remained in legal limbo in the mid-1960s, Banner was featured in ""Deadlier Than The Male"" (1966), a British mystery about two female assassins. She played Wendy, a wholesome teenager, in ""C’mon, Let’s Live a Little"" (1967), one of the last of the ""beach party"" films."
"year. ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy was a critical and financial success, and the third film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2004. Otto's performance earned her an Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Otto's next project was the Australian television miniseries ""Through My Eyes: The Lindy Chamberlain Story"" (2004). The film is a drama that portrays the story of Lindy Chamberlain, who was convicted in 1982 of killing her baby daughter, Azaria, in one of Australia's most publicized murder trials. Otto was cast as Chamberlain after her husband, Peter"
"brothers of Azaria Chamberlain ""on the death of [their] special and dearly loved daughter and sister"" and stated that a death certificate with the cause of death had been registered. The Crown alleged that Lindy Chamberlain had cut Azaria's throat in the front seat of the family car, hiding the baby's body in a large camera case. She then, according to the proposed reconstruction of the crime, rejoined the group of campers around a campfire and fed one of her sons a can of baked beans, before going to the tent and raising the cry that a dingo had taken"
"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"
"taken by a dingo"". The Chamberlains divorced in 1991 and both remarried other people. Lindy and her second husband lived for a time in the United States and New Zealand but have since returned to Australia. Michael Chamberlain died after a long battle with leukaemia on 9 January 2017, aged 72. The National Museum of Australia has in its collection more than 250 items related to the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain, which Lindy Chamberlain has helped document. Items include courtroom sketches by artists Jo Darbyshire and Veronica O'Leary, camping equipment, a piece of the dashboard from the Chamberlain family's car,"
"in the Northern Territory and chairman of the Forum for Indigenous Studies at the North Australia Research Unit. He was also the second honorary colonel of Norforce Muirhead presided over Australia's most famous criminal murder trial, that of R v Chamberlain & Chamberlain, when Lindy and Michael Chamberlain were charged with the murder of their daughter Azaria. He sentenced Lindy to life imprisonment on 29 October 1982. In the 1988 film ""Evil Angels"", which was based on the events surrounding the trial, Muirhead is portrayed by the actor Charles 'Bud' Tingwell. In 1989 he was appointed a Knight of Grace"
"frustrated at the lack of success and at restructuring measures being undertaken by the company. She established her own independent production company, Cinema Verity. The company's first production was the feature film ""A Cry in the Dark"" (1988), starring Sam Neill and Meryl Streep based on the ""dingo baby"" case in Australia. Cinema Verity's first television series, the BBC1 sitcom ""May to December"", debuted in 1989 and ran until 1994. The company also produced another successful BBC1 sitcom, ""So Haunt Me"", which ran from 1992 to 1994. Lambert executive produced Alan Bleasdale's hard-hitting drama serial ""G.B.H."" (1991) commissioned by Channel"
"joined a long list of mothers deemed killers because of unacceptable maternal behaviour. Commentators compared her experience to that of Lindy Chamberlain, convicted of murder after her baby was killed by a dingo. Like Kate, she was suspected, in part, because she did not weep in public. There was even a similar (false) story about supposedly relevant Bible passages the women were said to have highlighted. Chamberlain asked: ""How can you apologise to me and do this again to someone else?"" In November 2011 the McCanns testified before the Leveson Inquiry into British press standards. The inquiry heard that the"
"Michael Chamberlain Michael Leigh Chamberlain (27 February 1944 – 9 January 2017) was a New Zealand-Australian writer, teacher and pastor falsely implicated in the August 1980 death of his missing daughter Azaria, which was later demonstrated to be the result of a dingo attack while the family was camping near Uluru (then usually called Ayers Rock) in the Northern Territory, Australia. Chamberlain's then-wife Lindy was falsely convicted of the baby's murder in 1982 and he was convicted of being an accessory after the fact. The findings of a 1987 royal commission ultimately exonerated the couple, but not before they were"
"Thing"". The film is an adaptation of an autobiographical story by New York journalist Anna Quindlan, following a woman (Renée Zellweger) with no option but to leave Manhattan for the small town where she was raised when her mother (Meryl Streep) is diagnosed with cancer. Franklin supports the portrayal of African-American history in films, and has been quoted as saying “I am interested in the universal values of the black experience.” However, just because Franklin is a filmmaker who is African American does not mean that all of his films are racially motivated. Not all of his films revolve around"
"drama based on Prosper Mérimée's novella ""Carmen"". The film's director Radley Metzger had begun his film career importing titillating films from Europe. Metzger's new film ""...walk[ed] a fine line by keeping his films suggestive but not descending fully into explicit hard-core content."" The Supreme Court would later note it contained: ""sexually frank scenes but no instances of sexual consummation are explicitly portrayed."" ""Carmen, Baby"" was playing at the Park Y Drive-In on 28 August 1968 while a city police officer watched from outside the fence. The following night, the officer returned to watch ""almost the entire film"" in company with"
"in 1999 and 2003 respectively. Quindlen participates in LearnedLeague under the name ""QuindlenA"". In 1994, her semi-autobiographical novel was published, titled ""One True Thing"". The book focuses on the relationship between a young woman and her mother who is dying from cancer. In real life, Quindlen's mother, Prudence Quindlen, died in 1972 while in her 40s from ovarian cancer. At the time Quindlen was a college student, but would come home to take care of her mother. In 1998, a film of the same name was released. The movie starred Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger as ""Kate and Ellen Gulden"","
"her publicly where she had taken Azaria. She then later returned to the tent and immediately claimed that she saw a dingo taking her baby with evidence implicating a dingo being purely coincidental. No-one noticing alleged blood on Mrs Chamberlain's clothes in the hours after the disappearance was purely fortunate. Mrs Chamberlain opening the car where the body was allegedly hidden to give a dog the scent of Azaria from the clothes in the car was a daring act. She also must have somehow done it without her husband's knowledge or he was also incredibly daring given that he left"
"court judge. She played multiple characters on ""The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"". She also voiced Greta Gravel on ""The Flintstones"" (ep.""The Entertainer""). In animated films, she did two voices in Disney's ""Bambi"": Bambi's mother and the pheasant who panics when the hunters come leading to her demise. Jean Harlow died of kidney disease shortly before the completion of the film ""Saratoga"" in 1937. The film was 90% completed and MGM used a body double Mary Dees for Harlow. Dees's voice was higher than that of Harlow, so MGM allowed Winslowe to step in as a voice double. The film"
"works with little preschoolers each day for therapy. One day she feels the fear that drove her to her crime and asks to be removed from the room. As she is taken away, some of the children slyly watch her, implying that they are also doppelgangers. That night, Miss Sidley commits suicide by slashing her throat and her former psychiatrist soon focuses intently on the children. Bernardo Villela made a Dollar Baby film adaptation. The audiobook version was narrated by actress Whoopi Goldberg. A film adaptation is in the works from producers Craig Flores, Nicolas Chartier and Sriram Das. It"
"mechanical babies are devised to pacify the maternal instincts of 10 billion women. But to Carol, the very idea of accepting one of the robot infants is abhorrent. She wants and needs a ""real"" child, and this slowly becomes an obsession. Derek Meddings created the life-size realistic animatronic children for the film. Geraldine Chaplin won Best Actress at the 1972 Sitges Film Festival for her performance. Z.P.G. Z.P.G. (short for ""Zero Population Growth"") is a 1972 Danish-American dystopian science fiction film starring Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin and directed by Michael Campus. It is inspired by the non-fiction best-selling book"