After the death of his mother, teenage Danny visits his father Matt Malloy on a lonesome farm in Australia, where he lives with a girlfriend and her daughter Stevie. The farm has been going bad lately, so Matt starts smuggling Marijuana for a drug connection. When Danny joins him on one of his flights, the two-seater crashes in the middle of nowhere. Since his father is wounded, he has to conquer the jungle alone in search for help.
Acting
Bruno Lawrence's weathered desperation — the man's face IS the outback.
Cinematography
Queensland locations doing heavy lifting the budget couldn't.
Director
Michael Pearce
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rodney Harvey was a promising teen star who tragically died of a drug overdose in 1998, making his character's arc here unbearably poignant.
This is peak 'Ozploitation' trying to go respectable — think Wake in Fright's anxiety filtered through a PG-13 lens for international markets.
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