Walkabout
A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier.
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.
- Year: 1971
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Adventure, Drama
- Studio: Si Litvinoff Film Production, Max L. Raab Productions
- Keyword: australia, suicide, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, hunter, picnic, wilderness, camel, tribe, coming of age, flashback, survival, teenage girl, death, outback, geologist, rite of passage, australian aboriginal
- Director: Nicolas Roeg
- Cast: Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, David Gulpilil, John Meillon, Robert McDarra, Peter Carver
