A Cry in the Dark

A barely recognizable Meryl Streep plays the real-life Lindy Chamberlain, who for a long period in the early 1980s was the most hated woman in Australia. While visiting the Ayers rock monument in the Outback with her husband Michael (Sam Neill), Lindy notices a dingo creeping into the tent where her ...more

Meryl Streep found a role well-tailored to her skills of impersonation -- as well as to her rather cold on-screen persona -- with A Cry in the Dark, the true story of Lindy Anderson, an Australian woman who was believed to have murdered her newborn child. Director Fred Schepisi displays his usual knack for naturalism and character nuance, without shying away from the more lurid aspects of the case and its lengthy, elliptical trial. Streep appropriately keeps the audience at arm's length for ...more