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www.spiritualityhealth.com - : This is a gripping docudrama about one of the most controversial murder cases in Australian history. Lindy (Meryl Streep) and her husband Michael Chamberlain (Sam Neill), a Seventh Day Adventist pastor, are visiting Ayers Rock in the Australian outback with their two sons and nine-week-old baby, Azaria. Hearing her daughter cry out in the night, Lindy returns to the family tent in time to see a dingo or wild dog disappearing into the bush. Lindy is convinced the dingo has taken the baby. A search party is organized, but the child is never found. more...
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www.filmcritic.com - : The true story of Lindy Chamberlain, a severe and embittered woman who was found innocent, then guilty, then innocent of murdering her child in the Australian outback in 1980. Her excuse: ''The dingo took my baby.'' The case divided the nation of Australia for a decade, putting people in camps that believed the impossible -- that a wild dog ate a child -- or the unthinkable -- that her mother murdered her daughter. A Cry in the Dark is a tragic story that Meryl Streep (as Lindy) completely owns. But while it's very much a cautionary tale to keep your tent zipped up, the real moral of the story involves the crucial importance of being a sympathetic witness on the stand. Based on the book Evil Angels. more...
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