Wake in Fright

OTTAWA PREMIERE | 40^TH ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE

A hapless schoolteacher’s overnight stay in a desolate outback town stretches into a nightmarish binge of lager, machismo, violence, late night kangaroo hunting, hangovers, fear and self-loathing in what Nick Cave called “the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence.” “It left me speechless.” (Martin Scorsese)