A Cry in the Dark, motion picture about an Australian woman falsely accused of killing her baby. Released in 1988, the film is based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain (played by Meryl Streep), who claimed that wild dogs carried her baby away in the middle of the night. When the reserved woman does not appear to be overwrought about the child's death, the public begins to suspect that she killed her own child, and …showed first 75 words of 250 total…

…showed last 75 words of 250 total…Australia (see Aborigines). After these successes, Schepisi moved to Hollywood, California. Notable films he made there include Barbarosa (1982); Roxanne (1988); A Cry in the Dark (Australian title, Evil Angels, 1988), about the true case of a woman whose baby was allegedly taken by a dingo in the Australian outback; and Six Degrees of Separation (1993), about a young con artist who convinces upper-class residents of New York City that he is the son of American actor Sydney Poitier.