Sweet Country

About Sweet Country

In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.

Sweet Country (2018) is a crime thriller film directed by Warwick Thornton. The film is filed under desert, australia, 1920s, and bible.

Hamilton Morris takes the lead as Sam Kelly, Bryan Brown as Sergeant Fletcher, Sam Neill as Fred Smith, and Thomas M. Wright as Mick Kennedy. Released in January 2018, it runs 113 minutes.

The screenplay is by David Tranter and Steven McGregor. It was produced by Bunya Productions and Sweet Country Films. It is adapted from real events. It streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads in the United States.

The Nightingale, Rabbit-Proof Fence, and Red Hill make useful companions to Sweet Country, all filed under australian aboriginal and rape. TMDB voters put it at 6.6 out of 10 across 222 votes and it carries a R rating.