Walkabout (1971)
"A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier."
ThumbScore
👍 82%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 84%
(RT: 84%, MC: 85) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Luc Roeg as White Boy
John Meillon as Man
Robert McDarra as Man
Peter Carver as No Hoper
John Illingsworth as Young Man
Hilary Bamberger as Woman
Is Walkabout good?
Most people think so. 82% audience score, estimated from 478 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 84%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
Overview
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life. Wikipedia ↗
