The Stranger: trailer

Australian film The Stranger, starring Joel Edgerton and Sean Harris, will screen on Netflix in October.

Written and Directed by Thomas M. Wright, the film has had world and Australian premieres at the Cannes Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival, respectively.

The film revolves around two strangers who strike up a conversation on a long journey. One, a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case; the other, an undercover operative on his trail. Their uneasy friendship is at the core of this tightly wrought thriller, based on the true story of one of the largest investigations and undercover operations in Australia.

A See-Saw Films, Anonymous Content and Blue Tongue Films production, the film was produced by Rachel Gardner, See-Saw Film’s Iain Canning and Emile Sherman; Blue Tongue Films’ Joel Edgerton; and Anonymous Content’s Kim Hodgert and Kerry Kohansky-Roberts.

Executive Producers are See-Saw Film’s Simon Gillis, Rocket Science’s Thorsten Schuhmacher, Lars Sylvest, Trinity Media Financing’s Morgan Emmery and Jean-Charles Levy.

Wednesday 19 October on Netflix.