A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
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Movie1971·109 min
Wake in Fright
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
A drama thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff.
◈ CrunchScore
Top 26%
of all movies · weighted by audience size & source agreement
★ TMDB Audience Rating
7.2/10
352 ratings
About Wake in Fright
- Pacing
- Measured (4 of 9)
- Tone
- Dark (2 of 9)
- Intensity
- Harrowing (9 of 9)
- Complexity
- Layered (6 of 9)
- Humor
- Serious (1 of 9)
- Scale
- Personal (4 of 9)
- Spirit
- Bleak (1 of 9)
- Texture
- Gritty, Unsettling
- Story Tags
- isolation loneliness, identity self discovery, trauma recovery, holiday seasonal, international, wilderness, small town, strangers forced together, everyman, outsider misfit, fish out of water, rise and fall