

31/10/2002
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.

Robert Carlyle
as David O'Sullivan

Charles Dance
as Roderic Chamberlain

Kerry Fox
as Helen Devaney

Colin Friels
as Father Tom Dixon

Ben Mendelsohn
as Rupert Murdoch

David Ngoombujarra
as Young Max Stuart

Max Stuart
as Old Max Stuart

Rhys McConnochie
as Justice Abbott

Bille Brown
as Thomas Playford

John Gregg
as Rohan Rivett

Roy Billing
as Det Sgt Turner

Gary Waddell
as Constable Jones

Patrick Duggin
as Policeman #1

Andrew Martin
as Policeman #2

Frank Gallacher
as Justice Reed

Vincent Ball
as Chief Justice Napier

Peter Whitford
as Justice Windeyer

Heather Mitchell
as Roma Chamberlain

Chris Haywood
as Det-Sgt Karskens

Paul Sonkkila
as Bishop

Petru Gheorghiu
as Dr. Strehlow

Penne Hackforth-Jones
as Mrs. Aston

Marshall Napier
as Prison Warder

Josephine Byrnes
as Barmaid

Andy Anderson
as Norman Geiseman

Tim Robertson
as Mr. King

Peter Carroll
as Viscount Simonds

Tony Mack
as Mr. Aston

Lisa Flanagan
as Girl at Cinema

Donald MacDonald
as Lord Tucker

Nick Readman
as Alan Moir

Edmund Pegge
as Dawson

Scott Harrison
as Ed Montale

Don Barker
as Ceduna Magistrate

Edwin Hodgeman
as Govt. Prosecutor

Briah Victory
as Mary Hattam

Bernard Hull
as Policeman #3

Dylan Lloyd
as Policeman #4

Phillip Lowe
as Playford's Assistant

Roger Newcombe
as Clerk of Arraigns

Colleen Cross
as Air Hostess

Wojciech Pisarek
as Yugoslav Drunk

Paul Simpson
as Paul Spry

John Leigh Gray
as Jury Foreman

Chris Duncan
as Clerk of Courts

David Buchanan
as Juror (uncredited)

Chris Koch
as Court Attendance (uncredited)

Susan Lyons
as Dr. Thompson (uncredited)
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