Meryl Streep's Golden Career

A Cry in the Dark, 1988
Based on a true story this Australian-American production chronicles the case of Seventh-day Adventist Church pastor Michael and his wife Lindy, who are wrongfully sent to prison for the disappearance of their nine-week old daughter, Azaria from a campground near Ayers Rock.

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