Line #23 Film/FairGame


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2	A Mario Andreacchio film from 1986[[note]](IMDB Entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089122/ )[[/note]], about a gang of kangaroo poachers who terrorise a woman in the Australian Outback. They get more than they bargained for when their victim Jessica (played by Cassandra Delaney) decides to fight back.
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4	Not to be confused with the [[Film/FairGame1995 1995 movie]] starring William Baldwin and Cindy Crawford, or with the 2010 movie starring Creator/NaomiWatts and Creator/SeanPenn.
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7	!!This film provides examples of:
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9	* ActionGirl: Conservationist Jessica starts out as the victim, but after she is raped she takes bloody revenge on the three poachers.
10	* TheAllegedCar: Jessica's beat-up old Ford Falcon truck.
11	* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Ringo rides a dirt bike to scout out animals for the other poachers to shoot.
12	* ATeamMontage: A montage is used to show Jessica working through the night to booby-trap the farm before the hunters arrive in the morning. We are not shown how the traps work until they are activated, however.
13	* BadAssDriver: Sunny, who uses the Beast to systematically demolish Jessica's house while she is inside it.
14	* BerserkButton:
15	** Ringo tries to attack Jessica when she disrespects his mother because EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas.
16	** Jessica after she is raped and tied to the hood of the truck.
17	** Sunny when Ringo is killed.
18	* BigBad: Sunny is leader of the gang of CrazySurvivalist poachers.
19	* TheBlackSmith: Sparks repairs the poachers' truck, and assembles their equipment.
20	* CameraFiend: Ringo keeps snapping shots with a Polaroid camera, including an upskirt of Jessica and nude shots of her while she is sleeping. Jessica eventually shoots his camera.
21	* CarFu: Sunny uses 'the Beast' to try to run down Jessica; including driving the truck ''through'' her house.
22	* CoolCar: The poachers' truck has a custom paintjob and large exhaust pipes straight from ''Film/MadMax''. [[ICallItVera It is called]] 'the Beast'.
23	* DeadAnimalWarning: The hunters leave a dead, skinned kangaroo sitting in the driver's seat of Jessica's ute.
24	* DesertPunk: Ringo has spiky blond hair and wears a cutoff shirt, boots and leather pants.
25	* DoWrongRight: When the hunters discover that Jessica has welded their guns together during the night, Sparks' reaction is:
26	-->''It's a good job of welding, but.'' (notices DeathGlare from the other two) ''Maybe not.''
27	* EgomaniacHunter: Sunny gets a strong sense of enjoyment when butchering kangaroos, and later when stalking Jessica.
28	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Ringo attempts to assault Jessica after she disrespects his mother.
29	* EvilDetectingDog: Jessica's dog Kyla snarls anytime the hunters are in the vicinity or approaching, even if they cannot be seen or heard at the time.
30	* EvilPoacher: The gang of unlicensed hunters.
31	* FauxAffablyEvil: TheSociopath Sunny wears neatly pressed safari suits and affects upper class mannerisms, but he is the most brutal of the poachers.
32	* HardWorkMontage: There is a montage of Jessica working through the night to prepare the farm for the arrival of the hunters the next morning.
33	* HighSpeedHijack: Ringo jumps from the Beast onto Jessica's ute, then clambers over the top and onto Sparks' truck while all three vehicles are in motion.
34	* HighVoltageDeath: Ringo is killed when he swings from a powerline to a patch of ground soaked in water.
35	* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: Happens to the trio of {{Evil Poacher}}s who choose Jessica as their prey when HuntingTheMostDangerousGame. After they rape her, Jessica returns and [[RapeAndRevenge starts hunting the three of them]].
36	* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: The sadistic game played by the poachers on Jessica, which gets turned around on them when Jessica fights back.
37	* ICallItVera: The hunters' [[CoolCar tricked out hunting truck]] is named 'the Beast'.
38	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Sparks leaps at Jessica, misses, and impales himself on the horn of an anvil.
39	* JavelinThrower: During her final showdown with Sunny, Jessica demonstartes some amazing skill in being able to use star pickets as javelins.
40	* LandDownUnder: The movie is set in rural Australia.
41	* KickTheDog: The poachers kill and skin a sheep to terrify Jessica.
42	* MacGyvering: Jessica constructs improvised traps to kill the three poachers.
43	* MolotovCocktail: Jessica uses a Molotov cocktail to light up 'the Beast' after she tricks Sunny into the pit.
44	* PoliceAreUseless: When Jessica reports the poachers for harassment, the local policeman dismisses their antics as a harmless prank.
45	* RapeAndRevenge: Jessica's response to what the three poachers do to her, setting up traps to immobilize and kill them.
46	* RapeAsDrama: The gang of poachers viciously assault Jessica when she sabotages their truck, leading to the above revenge.
47	* SarcasticTitle: A reference both to hunting, and to the unfair things inflicted on Jess.
48	* TheSavageSouth: In this movie, the Outback is portrayed as an inhospitable desert full of gun-toting rapists, {{Good Old Boy}}s, and an incompetent police force.
49	* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Sunny. He is able to unerringly track Jessica across terrain that consists mostly of bare rock. At one point, he kneels, touches his finger to the ground and tastes ''something''. Whatever it is seems to confirm to him that he is on the right trail. Later, he spends a few seconds studying the approach to the farm and is able to correctly deduce that is trapped and decides to find another way in.
50	* ShowerOfAngst: After being brutalized by the hunters, Jessica curls up in a ball in the shower and lets the water wash over her. Made even sadder by the pathetic water pressure in the old farmhouse.
51	* SleepsInTheNude: Jessica sleeps nude on her bedroom due to the heat, with fans also aimed at her.
52	* SpyCatsuit: Jessica dons a spandex bodysuit when she [[TheHunterBecomesTheHunted begins her fightback]] against the {{Evil Poacher}}s.
53	* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: Ringo does one when he jumps the moving Beast on to the verandah of Jessica's house.
54	* VaporWear: Jessica's dress in the opening scenes, and the tight spandex stealth suit she later wears.
55	* VehicularAssault: The hunters' opening move in their game of intimidation against Jessica is to ram her ute off the road with 'the Beast'.
56	* WickedCultured: Subverted. Sunny buys the paintings of birds to use as targets.

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