Starring: Meryl Streep and Sam Neill
Sam is a minister with the Seventh Day Adventist in Queensland, Australia.
He and Meryl are very young in this movie.
Lots of bad language and muffled voices. You had to really strain to hear and understand as there were a lot of strong accents and multiple conversations going on at the same time where people are talking over the other.
Family of five go exploring and camping in the Northern Territory in Australia at Ayers Rock, one of the biggest rocks in the world with their 3 children, the youngest of which is a new a few months old baby.
Throughout the area, there are dingos coming closer to the camp where everyone is at, become more and more bold and taking scraps that are thrown to them by the campers as people feed them and take pictures of them.
One evening Meryl puts the baby to sleep in an open tent and goes to get something and return only to see a dingo coming out of the tent shaking it's head and runs off as she rushes in to see the baby is gone and everyone believes the dingo took her baby.
One lady sees blood in the tent and everyone goes on the hunt for the baby and the dingo.
They can't find it but only see a torn blanket and blood on that too.
After an exhaustive search, people try to figure out how it happened, if it happened and if a dingo could have really taken the baby. Press joins in and begin to hound Neill and Streep. The forensics then begin to analyze the found clothes etc and the movies makes you wonder what really happened?
A quote from the movie: "The dingo at your baby!" was used in the show, Seinfeld.
This movie was ok.
It drags and gets ridiculous at times.
I can only imagine the struggle the family went through.
It is awesome to see Streep and Neill so young and they of course were great.
This was based on a real story back in 1980.
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