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Turtle Beach

Turtle Beach

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 19, 1992

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Thriller, Drama

User Score

46%

Original Title

Turtle Beach

Production Companies

Regency International Pictures, Village Roadshow Entertainment

Director

Stephen Wallace

Description

Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes romantically involved with Kanan, and strikes up a friendship with Lady Minou Hobday, who keeps a regular vigil at "Turtle Beach" where the refugees try to land secretly in the hope that one day her own children will arrive. Accompanying Minou one night, Judith witnesses a brutal massacre by the Malaysians which spurs her on to expose the horrors of the internment camps at Bidong.