Recommended Film: The Stranger (2022)
Recommended film. Crime fiction. Thomas M. Wright. True crime. Joel Edgerton. Sean Harris. Kate Kyriacou.
THE STRANGER is bloody intense and brilliantly acted crime fiction drama, based on true events. It’s very highly recommended, but not for those of a sensitive disposition.
‘The Stranger is a 2022 Australian psychological crime thriller film written and directed by Thomas M. Wright, starring Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris.[3][4] Based on the non-fiction book The Sting: The Undercover Operation That Caught Daniel Morcombe's Killer by Kate Kyriacou, and inspired by the murder investigation of Daniel Morcombe,[1] the film follows an investigation of a child abduction case, with an undercover police officer (Edgerton) in a sting operation tasked with getting close to and forming a friendship with the prime suspect (Harris).
The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2022, under the Un Certain Regard section.[5] It had a limited theatrical release in Australia by Transmission Films on 6 October 2022 and streamed worldwide on Netflix on 19 October.[‘.
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