PREVIEW: The Stranger (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Joel Edgerton (Boy Erased), Sean Harris (Spencer), Steve Mouzakis (I, Frankenstein), Jada Alberts (Red Hill), Ewen Leslie (The Nightingale), Matthew Sunderland (The Lost City of Z), Mike Foenander (Dark Blue)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Thomas M. Wright (Acute Misfortune), director, writer; Iain Canning (The King’s Speech), Joel Edgerton (The Gift), Rachel Gardner (Slow West), Kim Hodgert (The Lie), Kerry Kohansky-Roberts (Boy Erased) and Emile Sherman (The Power of the Dog), producers; Oliver Coates (Significant Other), composer; Sam Chiplin (Penguin Bloom), cinematographer; Simon Njoo (The Babadook), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Two strangers, Mark (Edgerton) and Henry (Harris), strike up a friendship as they go on a long journey together. However, Mark is really an undercover operative who has been targeting Henry, a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris are quietly captivating in this dark crime thriller, based loosely on one of the biggest investigations and undercover stings in Australian history.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 19TH OCTOBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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