Shame

1988 • 90 minutes
5.0
5 reviews
88%
Tomatometer
Eligible
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About this movie

A stranger, Asta Cadell (Deborra-Lee Furness, Jindabyne) limps into an outback town on a crippled motorcycle. Trapped while she waits for repairs, Asta stays at the garage of Tim Curtis (Tony Barry, Australia).

The outsider soon discovers that Tim's young daughter Lizzie (Simone Buchanan, My Brilliant Career) is the latest victim of the local sport: gang rape. Some women are intimidated, others make excuses and the law looks the other way - but nothing ever changes.

Attacked herself, Asta is drawn in to the struggle of the town's women for safety and dignity. Emboldened by her, Lizzie lays charges and all hell breaks loose.

The women rise up, but resistance is never that easy or that simple...

Ratings and reviews

5.0
5 reviews
Kazza Pearse
December 13, 2016
True to its time, powerful real and heart wrenching a must watch to all students n teens in Oz!!!
A Google user
March 8, 2018
Loved It