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Released
2002 · FILM

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Three young Aboriginal girls escape a government settlement and must outrun relentless officials across the harsh Australian Outback to reunite with their families.

“Follow your heart, follow the fence”

Directed by
Phillip Noyce
Written by
Doris Pilkington, Christine Olsen
Runtime
94 min
AdventureBiographyDrama

Synopsis

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls flee after being taken from their homes to be trained as domestic workers, embarking on a journey across the Australian Outback.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Veronika JenetShot by Christopher DoyleScored by Peter GabrielDesigned by Roger Ford

Box Office

2002 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$16.2M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$16.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $6.2M — 38% of worldwide · International: $10.0M (62%)

Also known as

  • Der lange Weg nach Hausede
  • Long Walk Homede
  • Long Walk Home - Der lange Weg nach Hausede
  • Le Chemin de la libertéfr
  • La generazione rubatait

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