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   Meryl Streep

   In A Cry in the Dark (titled Evil Angels in Australia), Streep portrayed Lindy Chamberlain, the Australian mother who was accused of being responsible for the death of her infant after claiming that a dingo took her baby. ... ↑ That Madcap Meryl.
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   A Cry in the Dark

   Yet A Cry in the Dark is better than that, mostly because of another stunning performance by Meryl Streep, who plays Lindy Chamberlain with the kind of virtuosity that seems to redefine the possibilities of screen acting . . .
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   Azaria Chamberlain disappearance

   It starred Meryl Streep as Lindy and Sam Neill as Michael Chamberlain.
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   Academy Award for Best Actress

   Meryl Streep - A Cry in the Dark as Lindy Chamberlain ... Film awards for Best Actress
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   Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton

   In the 1983 Australian TV movie about the case, Who Killed Baby Azaria?, Lindy Chamberlain was played by Elaine Hudson. In the 1988 film A Cry in the Dark (also called Evil Angels), the role was played by Meryl Streep, while Miranda Otto played her in the 2004 Australian TV mini-series, Through My Eyes: The Lindy Chamberlain Story.
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   List of biographical films

   | 1988 | A Cry in the Dark | Lindy Chamberlain | Meryl Streep | ... | 2005 | The Greatest Game Ever Played | Francis Ouimet | Shia LaBeouf |
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   Trial by media

   One case popularized by the media between 1980 and 1982 was the murder trial of Lindy Chamberlain in Australia who was convicted of killing her baby, but later released in 1986 on new evidence showing that a dingo had in fact committed the act as was originally claimed by Chamberlain. The motion picture A Cry in the Dark depicted Chamberlain, as played by actress Meryl Streep, caught in a "trial by media" which fed the public's, and subsequently the jury's false conviction of her.
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   Brian James (actor)

   On film, he played screen father to Meryl Streep in A Cry in the Dark, the 1988 movie about the Lindy Chamberlain court case.
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   Requiem for a Reality Show

   Spanky's comment "We'll eat like dingoes in a maternity ward!" is a reference to a 1980 incident that occurred in Australia in which Lindy Chamberlain was wrongfully accused of murdering her infant daughter, Azaria; she was exonerated when it was discovered the child was in fact killed and eaten by a dingo. The incident was immortalized in the 1988 film A Cry in the Dark, starring Meryl Streep.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Meryl Streep,
• A Cry in the Dark,
• Azaria Chamberlain disappearance,
• Academy Award for Best Actress,
• Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton,
• List of biographical films,
• Trial by media,
• Brian James (actor),
• Requiem for a Reality Show