Turtle Beach

1992

Drama / Thriller

7
IMDb Rating 4.7/10 10 411 411

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Stephen Wallace Photo
Stephen Wallace

Top cast

Stuart Campbell Photo
Stuart Campbell as Nigel
William McInnes Photo
William McInnes as Minder
Greta Scacchi Photo
Greta Scacchi as Judith
Art Malik Photo
Art Malik as Kanan
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808.47 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 10
1.46 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  cz  dk  de  es  fi  fr  hu  it  ja  kr  nl  no  pl  pt  ro  sv  tr  cn  
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by NonEgo1 1 / 10

Yawnnnnnnnn.....zzzzzzzzzzz

The summary says it all. Trivia1) The writer is Blanche D'Alpuget who married Bob Hawke,the ex-Prime Minister of Australia 2) The Viets were labeled as refugees in the West but "illegal economic migrants" in Asia. 3) The Malaysian Govt "excised" Pulau Bidong & other islands from Malaysian legal jurisdiction and dumped the Viets there without recourse to Malaysian law. The western world, particularly Australia, & U.S roundly criticised Malaysia for being heartless and refusing to allow the Viets to settle in Malaysia. 4) Years later, the U.S did the same thing when faced with waves of Haitian "refugees" landing on Miami beaches. These Haitian were now termed as "illegal aliens" and were dumped in Gitmo before being forcibly deported back to Haiti. Then the Australian Govt did the same when faced with Iraqi "refugees" (Tampa incident) The Aussies dumped these newly termed "illegal immigrants" on the island of Nauru !!!Hypocrisy? You bet !!! It's always different when it happens on your doorstep isn't it ???
Reviewed by Scoopy

Lightweight film that doesn't have the depth for its serious subject

In a nutshell: Greta Scacchi uses the heart-wrenching plight of the Vietnamese boat people to get a fabulous tan.OK, that's an exaggeration, but the film suffers from a lack of heft. Its intentions are good, and its heart is in the right place, but....Very much in the same manner as a porn film, which would only muster the most minimal plotline to move the film from sex scene to sex scene, this is almost a documentary with the minimal plot necessary to justify making a movie about the subject. The performers are lightweights, as well, many of them (notably Joan Chen) just barely able to deliver a line with credible inflections. The acting is so stilted and superficial, watching this movie is like listening to a Van Damme impersonating contest on Saturday Night Live.Sadly, it's not bright enough to be an art film, and not slick enough to be a popular entertainment. I don't know who they thought their audience might be.Despite possessing such rich emotional material, the filmmakers failed to strike the powerful chord which should have been inherent in the situation.
Reviewed by =G= 4 / 10

Ordinary, mechanical, clumsy

Following the fall of Saigon (1975), boat people arrived by the thousands on the shores of, among other places, Turtle Beach in Malaysia. "Turtle Beach" attempts to tell that story while weaving in side plots having to do with a Vietnamese woman (Chen) who married money and throws it at the problem while trying to reunite with her children and an Aussie reporter (Sacchi) who wants to do a story about the boat people which the Malaysian government wants to suppress. The film plays out mechanically with two dimensional characters and clumsy attempts to spice it up with a dash of romance and sex. A mediocre (docu)drama only for the hard up couch potato.Note - The Malay Vietnamese boat people colonized Bidong Island not far from Tioman Island (until 1991), filming location for "South Pacific". "Turtle Beach" was not filmed in Malaysia.
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