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The Family (2016)

ALL 07/30/2016 (en) Documentary 98 Min
  • Release
    07/30/2016
  • Production
    Dogwoof, Big Stories, Film Victoria, Screen Australia, BBC
  • Rotten tomato
    75%
  • Original title
    The Family
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Inside one of Australia's most notorious cults

Overview

Anne Hamilton-Byrne was beautiful, charismatic and delusional. She was also incredibly dangerous. Convinced she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, Hamilton-Byrne headed an apocalyptic sect called The Family, which was prominent in Melbourne from the 1960s through to the 1990s. With her husband Bill, she acquired numerous children – some through adoption scams, some born to cult members – and raised them as her own. Isolated from the outside world, the children were dressed in matching outfits, had identical dyed blonde hair, and were allegedly beaten, starved and injected with LSD. Taught that Hamilton-Byrne was both their mother and the messiah, the children were eventually rescued during a police raid in 1987, but their trauma had only just begun.

  1. Rosie Jones

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Jane Usher

    Editor

  4. Anna Grieve

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Jordan Fraser-Trumble

    Detective Lex De Man (young)

  2. Anne Hamilton-Byrne

    Herself (archive footage)

  3. Bill Hamilton-Byrne

    Himself (archive footage)

  4. Lex De Man

    Himself (interview)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 4 , Crews : 13

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The Family (2016) 98 Min

ALL 07/30/2016 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 07/30/2016
  • Production
    Dogwoof, Big Stories, Film Victoria, Screen Australia, BBC
  • Original title The Family
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Inside one of Australia's most notorious cults

Overview

Anne Hamilton-Byrne was beautiful, charismatic and delusional. She was also incredibly dangerous. Convinced she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, Hamilton-Byrne headed an apocalyptic sect called The Family, which was prominent in Melbourne from the 1960s through to the 1990s. With her husband Bill, she acquired numerous children – some through adoption scams, some born to cult members – and raised them as her own. Isolated from the outside world, the children were dressed in matching outfits, had identical dyed blonde hair, and were allegedly beaten, starved and injected with LSD. Taught that Hamilton-Byrne was both their mother and the messiah, the children were eventually rescued during a police raid in 1987, but their trauma had only just begun.

  1. Rosie Jones

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Jane Usher

    Editor

  4. Anna Grieve

    Producer



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