
The Daughter
2015 · Movie · 96 min · ★ 6.3 · 70% critics
In a struggling logging town facing hard times, a man returns home for his father’s wedding and reconnects with an old friend whose family is under strain. As he grows closer to the friend’s household, a long-buried truth surfaces, testing loyalties and threatening to fracture relationships across the community.
Based on The Wild Duck
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Details
- Years
- 2015
- Release date
- 2015-10-09
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Critic score
- 70/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (92 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a dark, slow-building family drama about secrets and fallout, with intense emotions and moral messiness; Not for you if you dislike bleak, talky stories like Out of the Furnace.
Pros: gripping family tension; strong performances; slow-burn suspense | Cons: heavy melodrama; slow, muddled start; emotionally draining tone
Themes
- australia
- forest
- friends
- unemployment
- logging
- depressing
Awards & recognition
- AACTA Award — Best Actress in a Leading Role · 2016
- AACTA Award — Best Actress in a Supporting Role · 2016
- AACTA Award — Best Adapted Screenplay · 2016
- AACTA Award — Best Adapted Screenplay · 2016 · nominated
- AACTA Award — Best Actor in a Leading Role · 2016 · nominated
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- AACTA Award — Best Production Design · 2016 · nominated
- AACTA Award — Best Actress in a Leading Role · 2016 · nominated
- AACTA Award — Best Sound · 2016 · nominated
- AACTA Award — Best Film · 2016 · nominated
- AACTA Award — Best Actor in a Supporting Role · 2016 · nominated
- AACTA Award — Best Editing · 2016 · nominated
- AACTA Award — Best Actress in a Supporting Role · 2016 · nominated
- IFFR audience award · 2016 · nominated
Cast & crew

Geoffrey Rush
as Henry

Sam Neill
as Walter

Paul Schneider
as Christian

Ewen Leslie
as Oliver

Miranda Otto
as Charlotte

Anna Torv
as Anna

Odessa Young
as Hedvig

Kate Box
as Julianne

Sara West
as Jane

Nicholas Hope
as Peterson
Directed by Simon Stone