The Last Wave

This article is about the 1977 Australian film. For the unrelated 2019 French TV series, see La Dernière Vague. For the album by Arcana, see The Last Wave (album).

The Last Wave
Australian film poster
Directed byPeter Weir
Screenplay by
Produced byHal and Jim McElroy
Starring
CinematographyRussell Boyd
Edited byMax Lemon
Music byCharles Wain
Production
companies
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • 13 December 1977 (1977-12-13)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$818,000[2]
Box office
  • A$1.258 million (Australia)
  • $866,250 (US)[3]

The Last Wave (also released in the United States as Black Rain) is a 1977 Australian mystery drama film directed by Peter Weir.[4][5] It is about a white solicitor in Sydney whose seemingly normal life is disrupted after he takes on a murder case and discovers that he shares a strange, mystical connection with the small group of local Aboriginal people accused of the crime.

  1. ^ The Last Wave (Image Gallery) (Blu-ray). Umbrella Entertainment. 2020. Event occurs at 0:02:15. DAVID4174.
  2. ^ Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 321-322
  3. ^ "Overseas Releases", Cinema Papers, May–June 1979 p332
  4. ^ Variety film review; 16 November 1977, p. 21.
  5. ^ "The Last Wave". Creative Spirits. Retrieved 15 April 2013.