The Hunter (2011 Australian film)

The Hunter is a 2011 Australian adventure thriller film, directed by Daniel Nettheim and produced by Vincent Sheehan, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Julia Leigh. It stars Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill and Frances OConnor. Dafoe flew to Hobart, Tasmania for the premiere of the film at the State Cinema.

Mercenary Martin David Willem Dafoe is hired by military biotech company Red Leaf to go to Tasmania and gather samples of the Tasmanian tiger, with further instructions to kill all remaining tigers to ensure no competing organization will get their DNA.Posing as a university biologist, Martin lodges in the home of the Armstrong family Lucy Frances OConnor and her two young children Katie Morgana Davies and Jamie Finn Woodlock. Lucy is perpetually benumbed from prescribed medication, taken after the disappearance of her environmentalist husband, Jarrah Armstrong. Speculation surrounds Jarrahs disappearance, particularly with regards to a longstanding conflict between the local loggers who are in desperate need of jobs, and the greenies, a group of environmentalists who have set up road blocks to the forest to prevent its deforestation. Martin goes into the bush for twelve days at a time, setting up various steel traps and makeshift snares, while waiting patiently to see if a tiger will surface. During his short stays at the Armstrongs to resupply, Martin slowly befriends the children, and discovers that Lucys medication is delivered to her by Jack Mindy Sam Neill, who has been unofficially looking in on the family. Martin confiscates Lucys medication, and bathes her while she is unconscious, after realizing the detrimental effects of her dependency. ........

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