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Walkabout

Summary: Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.

Release Date: July 01, 1971

Genres: Adventure, Drama

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Writers: Edward Bond

, Donald G. Payne

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: GP

Production: Max L. Raab Productions, Si Litvinoff Film Production

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, The Criterion Collection, Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), Janus Films, The Criterion Channel

Countries: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

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1970s abandoned mine actual animal killed adelaide south australia airplane animal skeleton animal slaughter ant attempted child murder attempted filicide audio montage australia australian aborigine australian bush australian outback balloon baobab tree barefoot based on novel bat bathing battery bigotry billabong binoculars blister blood body decoration body paint boomerang boy boys' school brassiere breasts brother sister relationship burning car bush butcher butchery butterfly camel campfire car caravan carcass carrying someone cave drawing chicken child protagonist chopped liver chopping liver cigarette cigarette smoking cliff coming of age corpse cross cultural relationship cross cutting culture clash dancer dancing dancing to exhaustion darkness death death of protagonist desert deserted ranch deserted town didgeridoo dingo director also cinematographer dog donkey drawing dried up pond eagle echidna exhaustion father daughter relationship father son relationship female frontal nudity female full frontal nudity fence fire firewood fish flashback fly food freeze frame fruit gas can geologist geology girls' school grasshopper grave gun gunshot hallucination ham hanged to death hawk heat hunter hunting hyperthermia independent film indifference indigenous culture indigenous people insanity insect italian kangaroo kangaroo meat killing an animal language barrier lawn sprinkler licking one's hand lie lightning listening to a radio liver lizard loincloth looking out a window loss of father maggot male frontal nudity map mating dance mental illness miniskirt moon mother daughter relationship mother son relationship mountain mountain climbing mule nameless character night nude in nature oasis oceania odyssey one word title outdoor nudity ox palm tree park parrot penknife photograph picnic picnic basket pig piggy back ride pistol playing cards poem pond porcupine rabbit ranch ravine reverse footage rifle rite of passage ritual road rolling downhill rusting equipment salt sand satchel school school uniform scientist sculpture sea setting a car on fire shooting sign language skeleton graveyard skinny dipping sleeping snake spear spider starting a fire storytelling subjective camera suicide suicide by gunshot suicide by hanging suicide of father sun sunburn suntan survival survival adventure swimming swimming pool sydney australia tan line teenage girl teenager telephone line telescope timeframe 1970s tin can title same as book title spoken by character toad toy airplane toy car toy gun toy rowboat toy soldier transistor radio tribe truck trust umbrella underwear upside down camera shot very little dialogue voyeur walkabout water water gun waterbed watering can weather balloon wilderness wildlife woman wears a short skirt

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