A Cry in the Dark

A Cry in the Dark

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  • Genre(s): Drama
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Fred Schepisi, Philip A. Patterson, Steve E. Andrews, Toby Pease, Janine Schepisi See all Crew
  • Cast(s): Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, David Hoflin, John Howard, Pat Thomson See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 2h
  • Music: Bruce Smeaton
  • Award(s): PFS 1989 (Won)
    Oscar 1989 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War, Song Sung Blue
  • Story:
    Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain: During a camping trip to Ayers Rock in outback Australia, she claims she witnessed a dingo taking her baby daughter, Azaria, from the family tent. Azaria's body is never found. After investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder. The case attracts a lot of attention, turning it into a media sideshow.
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6.9/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain: During a camping trip to Ayers Rock in outback Australia, she claims she witnessed a dingo taking her baby daughter, Azaria, from the family tent. Azaria's body is never found. After investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder. The case attracts a lot of attention, turning it into a media sideshow.
Ratings

6.9/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Won
PFS Award

Expos | 1989

Best Actress Award

1989 | Meryl

NYFCC Award

Best Actress | 1988 | Meryl

AFI Award

Best Film | 1989 | Verity

Best Director | 1989 | Fred

Best Actor in a Lead Role | 1989 | Sam

Best Actress in a Lead Role | 1989 | Meryl

Best Screenplay Adapted | 1989 | Robert

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Nominations
Oscar Award

Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1989 | Meryl

Golden Globe Award

Best Screenplay Motion Picture | 1989 | Robert

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama | 1989 | Meryl

Best Director Motion Picture | 1989 | Fred

Best Motion Picture Drama | 1989

Sant Jordi Award

Best Foreign Actress Mejor Actriz Extranjera | 1989 | Meryl

Golden Reel Award

Best Sound Editing Sound Effects | 1989 | Tim

CFCA Award

Best Actress | 1989 | Meryl

AFI Award

Best Achievement in Editing | 1989 | Jill

Best Achievement in Sound | 1989

Best Original Music Score | 1989 | Bruce

BOX OFFICE

Budget 15,000,000 USD

Box Office Collection 6,908,797 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

(June 2008) Ranked #9 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Courtroom Drama".

"The dingo ate my baby!" is never said in the film; it was said in the Seinfeld episode Seinfeld: The Stranded (1991) and became a national catchphrase. The phrase is famously uttered twice by Julia Louis Dreyfuss's character (Elaine Bennett).

Many Australians were critical of the movie when it was released (a few months after Lindy Chamberlain Creighton's release from prison), still maintaining their conviction that she wasn't innocent. When the film is discussed in Retro Report: "A Dingo's Got My Baby": Trial by Media (2014), there are clips presenting reactions from Australian audiences.

Based on a real-life incident that occurred near Ayers Rock (now Uluru), Central Australia. On the night of August 17, 1980, nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from the family tent during a camping trip. Lindy Chamberlain (Lindy Chamberlain Creighton) saw a dingo leaving the tent, and cried, "the dingo's got my baby!"

The Australian title for this movie, "Evil Angels", was not used in the United States. Two years after Meryl Streep made this film, she made Postcards from the Edge (1990), in which many scenes occur on film sets. In one of those on-set scenes, a crew member is wearing a T-shirt that says "Evil Angels".

Popular Dialogues

"Lindy Chamberlain: The dingo's got my baby!"

"Lindy Chamberlain: I'm told, "Don't talk like you normally talk. Watch how you hold your mouth. You look too sour and crabby. Don't get angry. Don't ask too many questions, or they think you're trying to be smart. And never, never, never laugh or you're an uncaring bitch." Well, I can't cry to order, and I won't be squashed into some dumb act for the public... or for you."