The Fringe Dwellers

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The Fringe Dwellers ★★½ 1986 (PG)

An Aborigine family leave their shantytown and move to the white, middle-class suburbs of Australia, encountering prejudice and other difficulties. Well acted and interesting but the ending's a letdown. 98m/C VHS . AU Kristina Nehm, Justine Saunders, Bob Maza, Kylie Belling, Denis Walker, Ernie Dingo; D: Bruce Beresford; W: Bruce Beresford, Rhoisin Beresford; M: George Dreyfus.

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