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- 1. a person living on the margins of a society or community; an outsider: "I'm always the fringe dweller, not quite fitting in anywhere"
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The film is about a young Aboriginal girl who dreams of life beyond the family camp that sits on the fringe of white society (the term fringe dwellers having specific application in Australia). The film is acclaimed as being the first Australian film featuring Indigenous actors in all the major roles.
The Fringe Dwellers. There always seem to be too many people in Trilby's home. She is a teenage girl who lives in an aborigine shantytown in Australia and who sometimes goes downtown to peer into the window of the travel agency and dream of Paris, London and New York.
The Fringe Dwellers is acclaimed as being the first film featuring Indigenous actors in all the major roles. It explores the social restrictions placed on Aboriginal people at that time, although it does not really examine the motivational depths of these characters.
The Fringe Dwellers: Directed by Bruce Beresford. With Kristina Nehm, Justine Saunders, Bob Maza, Kylie Belling. Story of an aboriginal family who tries to move out of the fringe into the main white community.
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- Drama
- Bruce Beresford
- 1986-10
Dec 18, 2017 · The story of an Aboriginal family’s attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
Jan 24, 1987 · Yet “The Fringe Dwellers,” which glows with cinematographer Don McAlpine’s clear-cut images, values those who are living hand to mouth for their ability to live life as it comes and for their...
