The Hunter (2011 Australian film)
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| Directed by | Daniel Nettheim |
| Produced by | Vincent Sheehan |
| Screenplay by | Alice Addison |
| Based on |
The Hunter by Julia Leigh |
| Starring |
Willem Dafoe Frances O'Connor Sam Neill |
| Music by |
Michael Lira Andrew Lancaster Matteo Zingales |
| Cinematography | Robert Humphreys |
| Edited by | Roland Gallois |
| Distributed by |
Madman Entertainment (Australia) Magnolia Pictures (United States) |
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102 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,051,613 (Australia) $176,432 (United States) |
The Hunter is a 2011 Australian drama film, directed by Daniel Nettheim and produced by Vincent Sheehan, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Julia Leigh. It stars Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill and Frances O'Connor. Dafoe flew to Hobart, Tasmania for the premiere of the film at the State Cinema.
The film opened to the Australian public in cinemas on 29 September 2011.
The novel revolves around a professional hitman who travels to Tasmania to hunt down the world's only remaining thylacine.
Mercenary Martin David (Willem Dafoe) is hired by military biotech company Red Leaf to go to Tasmania and gather samples of the Tasmanian tiger, with further instructions to kill all remaining tigers to ensure no competing organization will get their DNA.
Posing as a university biologist, Martin lodges in the home of the Armstrong family: Lucy (Frances O'Connor) and her two young children Katie (Morgana Davies) and Jamie (Finn Woodlock). Lucy is perpetually benumbed from prescribed medication, taken after the disappearance of her environmentalist husband, Jarrah Armstrong. Speculation surrounds Jarrah's disappearance, particularly with regards to a longstanding conflict between the local loggers who are in desperate need of jobs, and the 'greenies', a group of environmentalists who have set up road blocks to the forest to prevent its deforestation. Martin goes into the bush for twelve days at a time, setting up various steel traps and makeshift snares, while waiting patiently to see if a tiger will surface. During his short stays at the Armstrong's to resupply, Martin slowly befriends the children, and discovers that Lucy's medication is delivered to her by Jack Mindy (Sam Neill), who has been unofficially looking in on the family. Martin confiscates Lucy's medication, and bathes her while she is unconscious, after realizing the detrimental effects of her dependency.
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