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* ContrastingSequelSetting: The first film was set in a small Australian town going through a years' long drought, with the potential danger of a wildfire. This film is set in a temperate rain forest where it's constantly damp or raining, and an incoming storm threatens to flood the area.
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* TimeDelayedDeath: [[spoiler:Alice dies after [[AccidentalMurder being shoved by Lauren]] and [[DeathByFallingOver striking her head on a rock]]. She is still alive when Lauren leaves, and when Lauren comes back the next morning and Alice is gone,Lauren assumes that she recovered and continued to walk out of the valley;not knowing that Bee had moved the body off the path and hidden it.]]

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* TimeDelayedDeath: [[spoiler:Alice dies after [[AccidentalMurder being shoved by Lauren]] and [[DeathByFallingOver striking her head on a rock]]. She is still alive when Lauren leaves, and when Lauren comes back the next morning and Alice is gone,Lauren gone, Lauren assumes that she recovered and continued to walk out of the valley;not valley; not knowing that Bee Bree had moved the body off the path and hidden it.]]
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''Force of Nature: The Dry 2'' is an upcoming Australian mystery thriller film based on Jane Harper's 2017 novel of the same name, and is a sequel to the 2020 film version of Harper's ''Film/TheDry''. Director Robert Connolly returns alongside Creator/EricBana, who reprises his role as lead protagonist Aaron Falk.

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''Force of Nature: The Dry 2'' is an upcoming Australian mystery thriller film based on Jane Harper's 2017 novel of the same name, and is a sequel to the 2020 film version of Harper's ''Film/TheDry''. Director Robert Connolly returns alongside Creator/EricBana, who reprises his role as lead protagonist Aaron Falk.



The film will be released on February 8, 2024. It was originally due to be released on August 24, 2023, however it was postponed due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.

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The film will be was released on February 8, 2024. It was originally due to be released on August 24, 2023, however it was postponed due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.
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* DataDriveMacGuffin: The reason why Aaron and Carmen -- Australian Federal Police officers who investigate financial crimes -- join the search for Alice Russell when she disappears on the corporate retreat in the wilderness is because Alice was acting as TheMole inside a company they are investigating, and had a flash drive containing the evidence they need to convict CorruptCorporateExecutive Daniel Bailey on her when she vanished.
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* HungryJungle: A hungry temperate rain forest. The five women trek through deep, lush rain forest, slipping on rotting leaves, sinking into mud, negotiating swift currents, and constantly watching the dripping sky. The women's personality clashes are inevitably heightened, and then dwarfed by the vast sweeping landscape that threatens, at every turn,to swallow them whole.

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* HungryJungle: A hungry temperate rain forest. The five women trek through deep, lush rain forest, slipping on rotting leaves, sinking into mud, negotiating swift currents, and constantly watching the dripping sky. The women's personality clashes are inevitably heightened, and then dwarfed by the vast sweeping landscape that threatens, at every turn,to turn, to swallow them whole.
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* SceneryPorn: The film, shot in the Dandenong Ranges and the Latrobe Valley, contains plenty of spectacular shots of the rugged but beautiful Victorian alpine wilderness. When the lost hikers stumble upon the lookout, all of them are struck by the beauty of where they are, despite the danger they are in.
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* RevealingInjury: Bree was bitten by be a funnel-web spider while on the corporate retreat hiking trip. [[spoiler:When Aaron finds Alice's body, he sees the broken stump with a funnel-web web inside next to the body and realises that this was the spot Bree got bitten, which, in turn, means that she knew that Alice was dead and had said nothing.]]

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* RevealingInjury: Bree was bitten by be a funnel-web spider while on the corporate retreat hiking trip. [[spoiler:When Aaron finds Alice's body, he sees the broken stump with a funnel-web web inside next to the body and realises that this was the spot Bree got bitten, which, in turn, means that she knew that Alice was dead and had said nothing.]]
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* LandDownUnder: Shies away from the dangers of the outback to show the less commonly seen, but no less deadly, alpine wilderness.
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* HungryJungle: A hungry temperate rain forest. The five women trek through deep, lush rain forest, slipping on rotting leaves, sinking into mud, negotiating swift currents, and constantly watching the dripping sky. The women's personality clashes are inevitably heightened, and then dwarfed by the vast sweeping landscape that threatens, at every turn,to swallow them whole.
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* TimeShiftedActor: In the flashbacks to Aaron Falk's camping trip with his parents to the same mountains where Alice has now disappeared, the teenage Aaron is played by Archie Thomson.

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* TimeShiftedActor: In the flashbacks to Aaron Falk's camping trip with his parents to the same mountains where Alice has now disappeared, the teenage Aaron is played by Archie Thomson.Thomson.
* TrustBuildingBlunder: Five women take part in a corporate hiking retreat and only four come out on the other side.
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* ChekhovsGun: When Ian shows Aaron and Carmen the waterfall that marks the start of the trail the hiking group was taking, Aaron asks how tall it is. Ian says it is only about 15 metres, but that the pool at the base is at least that deep again and the pressure makes it almost impossible to get out. At the end of the film, [[spoiler:Lauren falls of the top of the waterfall into the pool and Aaron is forced to dive in after her]].

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* ChekhovsGun: When Ian shows Aaron and Carmen the waterfall that marks the start of the trail the hiking group was taking, Aaron asks how tall it is. Ian says it is only about 15 metres, but that the pool at the base is at least that deep again and the pressure makes it almost impossible to get out. At the end of the film, [[spoiler:Lauren falls of off the top of the waterfall into the pool and Aaron is forced to dive in after her]].
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* ChekhovsGun: When Ian shows Aaron and Carmen the waterfall that marks the start of the trail the hiking group was taking, Aaron asks how tall it is. Ian says it is only about 15 metres, but that the pool at the base is at least that deep again and the pressure makes it almost impossible to get out. At the end of the film, [[spoiler:Lauren falls of the top of the waterfall into the pool and Aaron is forced to dive in after her]].


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* TakeMyHand: When Aaron finally persuades [[spoiler:Lauren]] to come away from the top of the waterfall, he reaches out a hand to help her. However, as she turns towards him and reaches for his hand, she slips and falls over the edge; forciing Aaron to diive after her.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Aaron's mother Jennifer Falk only appears in the flashbacks to the camping trip the Falk family took to the same area of the mountains decades earlier. [[spoiler:She died at the end of that trip.]]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:ExtremeDoormat Lauren finally snaps; infuriated by her so-called friend Alice's refusal to apologise for her daughter Margot being one of the gang who bullied Lauren's daughter Rebecca. When Alice says that she is proud of Margot and pities Rebecca for having someone as pathetic as Lauren as a role model, Lauren attacks her and violently shoves her to the ground. Alice [[DeathByFallingOver hits her head on a rock]] and later [[AccidentalMurder dies from her injuries]].]]
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* ExtremeDoormat: Lauren is quiet, retiring type who has lived her whole life in the shadow of, and being pushed around,by her louder, more aggressive 'friend', who doesn't care that she has stepped all over Lauren to get what she wants. She is such a nonentity at work that one of her bosses can't even remember her name, and the other one gets basic facts like the name of her daughter wrong. Throughout the film, she tends to fall in behind whoever is being loudest and most dominant.

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* ExtremeDoormat: Lauren is quiet, retiring type who has lived her whole life in the shadow of, and being pushed around,by around by, her louder, more aggressive 'friend', who doesn't care that she has stepped all over Lauren to get what she wants. She is such a nonentity at work that one of her bosses can't even remember her name, and the other one gets basic facts like the name of her daughter wrong. Throughout the film, she tends to fall in behind whoever is being loudest and most dominant.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Lauren is quiet, retiring type who has lived her whole life in the shadow of, and being pushed around,by her louder, more aggressive 'friend', who doesn't care that she has stepped all over Lauren to get what she wants. She is such a nonentity at work that one of her bosses can't even remember her name, and the other one gets basic facts like the name of her daughter wrong. Throughout the film, she tends to fall in behind whoever is being loudest and most dominant.

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