Listening to Streep deliver the iconic line – ‘the dingo took my baby’ – will send shivers down your spine all over again
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Director Fred Schepisi’s 1988 drama Evil Angels is a rare example of a story virtually any Australian will recognise – even if they haven’t seen the film – by a single line of dialogue. The words “the dingo took my baby!” made their way into popular culture, quoted and bastardised in American productions from Seinfeld to The Simpsons. But, as we know, they came from a nightmarishly real place.
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