Australia's dark secret of institutionalist eugenics gets an impressive and heartfelt celluloid airing in this adaptation of Doris Pilkington Garimara's book, a story based around the astonishing real life journey of three young girls, removed from their true Aboriginal families and transplanted to a boarding school/prison to be trained as domestic servants (from whence it was hoped they would quietly blend into white society), and their 1,500 mile trek home with only a rabbit proof fence to gui
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THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (1974)
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Lou Jean Joplin is a young mother desperate to hold onto her son, a child the authorities want to put up for adoption. Lou's attempt to escape the law swiftly escalates out of all proportion, and with a state trooper as hostage she sets in motion a convoy of pursuing police in her race across Texas. Based on a true story, Sugarland Express was Steven Spielberg's very first feature, a sharp road movie drama that unfortunately pales in comparison to the seminal "Badlands".
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