A Cry In A Dark

Watched it again tonight. Horrible title, incredibly underrated movie with my favorite Meryl Streep performance. She is beyond brilliant in it. Sam Neill is heartbreaking as the husband and he also seems to have quite a large bulge lurking underneath those jeans and shorts. Mrs. Hugh Jackman can be seen in it briefly in a tiny role as a magazine reporter. Most of all it really has something important to say about the press and public's assumptions about the accused. I urge those who haven't seen it to check it out.

• A cry in the night, two lips to kiss

• Horrible title and also, ungrammatical. A Cry in a Dark what?

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• "We're talking about my baby daughter!"

• A dingo's got my careet!

• [quote]A dingo's got my careet! oh my

• [quote]Horrible title But much better than the title used in Australia and NZ, "Evil Angels".

• Maybe because the title is A Cry in THE Dark. Or did I miss the joke? Yes, Meryl is amazing. This may really be her best work - even better than Sophie.

• Yes indeed. Ahead of its time in exposing the smug way we rush to convict people and get so much out of throwing people over to the.... er, dingos, when they are accused of horrors, forgetting that they just might not be guilty. Before O.J., before Nancy Grace. (and no I'm not suggesting O.J. was innocent, I'm simply using him as a benchmark in the history of recent criminal justice/pop culture)

• A dingo raped my sister!

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• It's fun spotting all the Prisoner: Cell Block H actors.

• A dingo stole my election!

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• I loved Prisoner cell block H! They used to show at midnight after Benny Hill in the 80's although I remember it being British for some reason.

• Meryl was on that horrid Watch What Happens Live a while back and the cross-eyed host (can't remember his name) asked her to say 'the dingo ate my baby' and she very politely refused and, basically, said there was nothing funny about it. We could all learn alot from Meryl!

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• A dinger terk mah baybay!

• R8, yes, absolutely. Meryl S herself has said that's why she so proud of that movie. Apologies for the incorrect title. Didn't have my glasses on.

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• I agree, it is Meryl's very best work. Her finely crafted accent (Aussie/Kiwi hybrid, based on the speech patterns of the actual Lindy Chamberlain) is often misunderstood and ridiculed for not being 'real Australian'. Good! It means she did her homework. Regardless of the accent, it's her finest piece of acting, ever. Oh, and 'Evil Angels' is a horrid title. So trashy. I don't care if it's based on a line in the Bible. For this film, it doesn't work. 'A Cry in the Dark' sums up the film perfectly. That's all!

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