Movie · Drama · Mystery

Meryl Streep won the New York Film Critics and Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards as Australia's Lindy Chamberlain, accused of killing her infant daughter. "Hair-raising." (Newsweek)

1988 · 2h 1m
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  • 13+
Director Fred Schepisi

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A Cry in the Dark

Drama

Meryl Streep won the New York Film Critics and Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards as Australia's Lindy Chamberlain, accused of killing her infant daughter. "Hair-raising." (Newsweek)

COMMON SENSE

Mom is wrongly accused of murder; language, violence.

TOMATOMETER
Average 6.8
Reviews 33
Fresh 31
Rotten 2

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Studio
Warner Bros.
Released
1988
Run Time
2 hr 1 min
Rated
PG-13
Content Advisories
Violence, Language
Regions of Origin
United States, Australia
© Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (AAC), French (Canada) (AAC)

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English (CC)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.