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66% Critic Match
Stir
“Hated... Desperate... Brutalised... ...They can't stop now!”
6.6 / 10• 1980• 1h 37m•NR• English
ThrillerActionDrama
Storyline
Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
Cast & Crew
Bryan Brown
China Jackson
Lead
Max Phipps
Norton
Dennis Miller
Redford
Gary Waddell
Dave
PM
Phil Motherwell
Alby
MG
Michael Gow
Andrew
ER
Edward Robshaw
Partidge
TM
Tex Morton
The Govenor (as Robert 'Tex' Morton)
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Stephen Wallace's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Stir is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
