Richard Chamberlain is highly effective as a young lawyer caught up in a case of an aborigine murdered by some others in town.
The Last Wave
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Australia · 1977
Rated PG · 1h 46m
Director Peter Weir
Starring Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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David Burton is a lawyer who reluctantly agrees to take on the mysterious murder case involving four men from a local aboriginal tribe. He is determined to break their silence and get to the truth of the incident, but freakish weather and bizarre dreams plague Burton, suggesting something else may be at work.
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Weir had a truly magical touch in early films like this 1977 masterpiece, which offers a transfixing excursion into the "dream time" of Australian myth.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
A minor triumph of atmosphere and nightmare imaginings.
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