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Thread #108718   Message #2435163
Posted By: wysiwyg
09-Sep-08 - 10:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
Subject: RE: BS: Seen any good movies lately?
Must see: Rabbit-Proof Fence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-Proof_Fence_(film)

Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama film based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. It is a true story concerning the author's mother, as well as two other young mixed-race Aboriginal girls, who ran away from the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth, in order to return to their Aboriginal families, after having been placed there in 1931. The film follows the girls as they trek/walk for nine weeks along 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of the Australian rabbit-proof fence to return to their community at Jigalong, while being tracked by a white authority figure and a black tracker....[

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