Turtle Beach

Mar 19, 1992

1h 30m

★ 4.9

Overview

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.

Genres

Thriller

Drama

Production Companies

Regency International Pictures

Village Roadshow

Turtle Beach Trailers

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Cast

Judith

Greta Scacchi

Sancha

Victoria Longley

Ralph

Jack Thompson

Kanan

Art Malik

Minou

Joan Chen

Richard

Martin Jacobs

Behzad

Kee Chan

Hobday

Norman Kaye

Minder

William McInnes

Bill

George Whaley

Peter

Daniel De Leur

Amah

Celia Wong

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