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Television Shows
The Clearing
2023
The Clearing (2023) is an Australian thriller based on the book In the Clearing (2020) by JP Pomare.
The Pomare book was inspired by actual events—Australian Anne Hamilton-Byrne headed apolalptic sect called The Family, prominent in Melbourne from the 1960s for almost 30 years.
Hamilton-Byrne ‘adopted’ a number of children; she then controlled them beatings, drugs and withholding food.
The TV series (on Hulu & Disney) is centred on Freya who begins to confront memories of her childhood after a child is kidnapped in her hometown. Freya becomes determined to stop a cult from harming more children.
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