Turtle Beach (1992)
Rating: 4.8/10
Duration: 90 min
Director(s): Stephen Wallace,
Description:
Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes romantically involved with Kanan, and strikes up a friendship with Lady Minou Hobday, who keeps a regular vigil at "Turtle Beach" where the refugees try to secretly land, in the hope that one day her own children will arrive. Accompanying Minou one night, Judith witnesses a brutal massacre by the Malaysians, which spurs her on to expose the horrors of the internment camps at Bidong.
Cast
- Joan Chen as Minou
- Stuart Campbell as Nigel
- Greta Scacchi as Judith
- William McInnes as Minder
- Kee Chan as Behzad
- Art Malik as Kanan
- Jack Thompson as Ralph
- Victoria Longley as Sancha
- Martin Jacobs as Richard
- Norman Kaye as Hobday
- George Whaley as Bill
- Daniel De Leur as Peter
- Celia Wong as Amah
- Monroe Reimers as Mohammed
- Patrick Dickson as Julian