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A barely recognizable Meryl Streep plays the real-life Lindy Chamberlain, who for a long period in the early '80s was the most hated woman in Australia. While visiting the Ayers rock monument in the Outback with her husband, Michael (Sam Neill), Lindy notices a dingo creeping into the tent where her baby lies sleeping. Seconds later, the horrified woman discovers that her child is gone. Despite Lindy's anguished insistence that the dingo killed her baby, the Australian public is of the opinion
Nov 4, 1988 Wide
Dec 21, 1999
Warner Home Video
All Critics (26) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (2) | DVD (5)
Streep's beauty and talent and director Fred Schepisi's intelligence are both shown to best advantage, without easy points or grandstanding.
Streep and Neill are the film's perfectly matched thoroughbreds. But the film is neither a double star turn nor the best kind of courtroom drama; it is a sort of epic mosaic of national character.
Streep ... plays Lindy Chamberlain with the kind of virtuosity that seems to redefine the possibilities of screen acting.
Streep's performance is risky, and masterful.
Streep -- yes, with another perfect accent -- brings her customary skillfulness to the part. It's not a showy performance, but the heroine's internal struggle seems to come from the actress' pores.
The powerful performances and sharp script augment this revealing human drama.
Streep (the best thing she has done in ages) carries it along.
Meryl Streep gives another stellar performance in this fact-based Australian drama about a working class woman accused of killing her daughter.
Admirably off-putting performance by Streep in a reasonably involving Australian court drama.
Remarkably even-handed; Streep's much-touted performance distracts.
Streep is a sensation....haunting stuff
A poignant family-in-crisis drama aided by spectacular performances from Streep and Neill.
'Set in Australia, a couple is hurled into the media spotlight, unsuspecting of its power to twist the truth overnight. Streep proves she is a towering inferno of an actress.'
Another in the endless stream of self-conscious Streepian dialect dramas.
Streep and Schepisi save it from being TV-movie material.
"The dingo's got my baby!"I can't recollect how I stumbled upon this flick. But besides the above quote, a few other things tempted me to go for it:--> its title (Evil Angels)--> that it's based on true story--> its IMDb Rating--> its genre--> somewhere while browsing its IMDb page, I read
September 8, 2010Super Reviewer
Lindy Chamberlin: "The dingo took my baby!" words forever etched in the Australian cultural psyche. A great courtroom drama film and a terrific performance by the incomparable Meryl, who had to play not only an Australian accent but also with a hint of A New Zealand accent reflecting the background of Lindy
August 7, 2009Super Reviewer
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