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Walkabout

Walkabout

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 1, 1971

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Adventure, Drama

User Score

73%

Original Title

Walkabout

Production Companies

Si Litvinoff Film Production, Max L. Raab Productions

Director

Nicolas Roeg

Description

Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.