Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
- Awards
- 6 wins & 17 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe song that Ellie sings when she, Aaron, Grant and Gretchen are sitting around a camp fire is 'Under The Milkyway' by The Church. It was a single from their 1988 album 'Starfish'.
- GoofsAfter tackling the burning man, Aaron is shown with various marks and bandages. His right ear is red from the flames, but his hair is completely untouched. It would have been severely singed.
- Quotes
Scott Whitlam: Suburbia in the country? Worst of both worlds.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Force of Nature: The Dry 2 (2024)
- SoundtracksUnder the Milky Way
Written by Steve Kilbey and Karin Jansson
Published by Steve Kilbey Music/Music Sales Corporation by kind permission of The Music Sales Group/Administered by Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd
Performed by BeBe Bettencourt
Piano by Brontë Horder
Produced by Peter Raeburn
Featured review
A missed opportunity
Unfortunately, we make very few films here in Australia, and we rarely make great films, that's why when a fairly ok movie comes out, we all get excited. Our local movie critics are also incapable of judging local films without bias. They too, get overexcited and rave on about a film like "The Dry". This is not a boring film, or am awful experience, however, it's really not that great. Of course, we all get sentimental when we see the Australian landscape photographed in a movie, it's close to our hearts and we get touched by it. This film has all the ingredients to potentially have been a great film, but that opportunity was missed. The story has many holes, the constant flashbacks get confusing, the performances are not that great, Eric Bana has no chemistry with anyone on the screen, the soundtrack is nonstop and aimless, and annoying. The dialogue is also poorly done. Very basic screenwriting, nothing sophisticated, very much on-the-nose. I understand the desire to portray the simplicity of the characters being a country/rural setting, however, films like Coen Brothers' "Fargo" achieve this without compromising the integrity of the dialogue. This definitely didn't live up to the hype. Watch it of course to support our home-grown. film industry, but we really need to up our game.
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- xaapaas
- Feb 12, 2021
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Засуха
- Filming locations
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia(location)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $364,237
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $119,364
- May 23, 2021
- Gross worldwide
- $15,576,286
- Runtime1 hour 57 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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