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Jan 31, 2003 · Based on a true story, the film follows three Aboriginal girls who escape from a government camp and walk across the Outback to find their homes. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more.
- (30K)
- Adventure, Biography, Drama
- Phillip Noyce
- 2003-01-31
A film based on a true story of three aboriginal girls who escape from a government school and walk 1,500 miles across the outback. Roger Ebert praises the film's beauty, harrowing and heartbreaking scenes, and the final revelation of the historical injustice.
The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia, formerly known as the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the State Vermin Fence, and the Emu Fence, is a pest-exclusion fence constructed between 1901 and 1907 to keep rabbits, and other agricultural pests from the east, out of Western Australian pastoral areas.
Tells the true story of three aboriginal girls who are forcibly taken from their families in 1931 to be trained as domestic servants as part of an official...
- (145)
- Phillip Noyce
- PG
- Everlyn Sampi
A film based on a true story of three Aboriginal girls who escaped from a government camp and walked across the Outback to their home in 1931. They faced racism, hardship, and danger along the way, while being pursued by a white officer and a tracker.
Jun 29, 2018 · In 1996, Molly’s daughter, Doris Pilkington Garimara, published the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, which was based on the girls’ escape from the Moore River settlement.
After being swept up in an an integration program for Indigenous Australians, three girls vow to escape an abusive orphanage and return home. Watch trailers & learn more.
