Adaptations (2)
Wake in Fright has been adapted 2 times, across film and miniseries, from 1971 to 2017.
Wake in Fright1971 · film · 109 min · dir. Ted Kotcheff · IMDb ↗A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Wake in Fright2017 · miniseries · IMDb ↗IMDb6.1John Grant is returning to Sydney after a year teaching at a one-classroom school in the Outback. Shortly after hitting the road, he collides with a kangaroo, and finds himself marooned in a small mining town, awaiting repairs on his car. With little to do but drink beer, John is seduced into a raucous, illegal game of two-up. After a short, exhilarating winning streak, he loses everything, which triggers a dangerous series of events that render John a broken and desperate man.
