Australia 1958. A nine year old white girl is found murdered in a remote cave and the local police are quick to arrest an illegitimate Aborigine by the name of Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the the killing and signs the statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of Appeal established in the country and a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics from institutional racism gifted but naive lawyers David O'Sullivan (Carlyle) and Helen Devaney (
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Drama based on the landmark trial of Max Stuart, an illiterate young Aborigine falsely accused of murdering nine-year-old Mary Hattan in a remote cave on the southern coast of Australia in 1958. The film stars Robert Carlyle and Kerry Fox as two idealistic young lawyers who, with the help of a rising press mogul called Rupert Murdoch (played by Ben Mendelsohn), take on the then corrupt and racist Australian legal system and secure a re-trial for Max.
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