Walkabout
MovieTitle | Walkabout |
User score | 7.3 |
Release date | Jul 1, 1971 |
Genre | Adventure, Drama |
Director | Nicolas Roeg |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Si Litvinoff Film Production, Max L. Raab Productions |
Run time | 95 min. |
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.