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The Hunter
1hr 41mins
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor, Sam Neill, Callan Mulvey
Directed by: Daniel Nettheim
The plot: A biotech company hires expert tracker Martin David to travel to the southern hemisphere and hunt the last remaining Tasmanian Tiger. The elusive and majestic beast is believed to hold the secret to a pharmaceutical miracle. Martin travels to the wilderness where he stays with Lucy Armstrong, whose zoologist husband is missing. As Martin stalks his prey, he grows emotionally attached to his hosts and begins to question the morality of eradicating an endangered species forever.
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Film4
"If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise, in the form of an elegant genre-hopper coming on like Werner Herzog meets Michael Crighton."
Little White Lies
"Unfocused and thematically overburdened. More could have been said with less."
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