Based on Kenneth Cook's Australian outback-set novel, Ted Kotcheff's booze, sweat, and testosterone-soaked Wake in Fright is a visceral, slow-burn waking nightmare of a film, driven by several memorably full-blooded performances and some decidedly brilliant editing.
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"A middle-class schoolteacher, stuck in a government-enforced teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in the mining town of Bundanyabba on his way home for the Christmas holidays. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the financial independence to move back to Sydney for good, the opportunity proves irresistible. But the bad decisions are just beginning and a reliance on local standards of hospitality in 'the Yabba' may take him on a path darker than ever expected." Eureka
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