Movie Info

Julia Louis-Dreyfus's Elaine on Seinfeld once offered a non sequitur at a party just to relieve her own boredom: "The dingo ate your baby," she...(read more...) blurted in a bad Australian accent. It was a reference to this harrowing film by director Fred Schepisi, based on a true story. Meryl Streep and Sam Neill play a married couple on a camping trip whose baby disappears. Streep maintains that the baby was carried off by a dingo--a wild dog--but she winds up as the victim of a hard-hearted prosecutor and the target of a nationwide hate campaign, in part because she was a religious fundamentalist who seemed unsympathetic and, thus, became an easy target for the tabloid press. Streep and Neill are both outstanding in this fierce, realistic drama about the ways faith can bolster even in the face of outrageous persecution. --Marshall Fine

Director: Fred Schepisi

MPAA: PG-13

Running Time: 122 min.

Release Date: Nov 04, 1988

Cast: Bruce Carter, Bruce Myles, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Charles Dance, David Wilson, Don Bridges, Frankie J. Holden, James Condon, James Taylor, John Howard, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Meryl Streep, Neil Fitzpatrick, Nick Tate, Paul Young, Peter Byrne, Philip Holder, Reg Evans, Sam Neill, Tim Robertson, Tony Martin