History Film / TheDry

* MissingMom: Ellie lived with her father and her cousin Grant: her mother having run off [[spoiler:to escape her [[DomesticAbuse abusive husband]]]]. A flashback showing the Falks leaving town after Ellie's death shows that the household consists of just Aaron and his father, but it is not clear if his mother is dead or if his parents are divorced.

* PaterFamilicide: Federal Police agent Aaron Falk returns to his home town after an absence of over twenty years to attend the funeral of his childhood friend, Luke, who allegedly killed his wife and child before taking his own life - a victim of the madness that has ravaged this community after more than a decade of drought.

* RedHerring: The blue colour of the shotgun shells used in the murder becomes important - Luke owned a different brand of shells, which used a red coloured casing. As Aaron investigates, he finds a few people use the blue shells, setting them up as potential suspects.

* TrappedByGamblingDebts: [[spoiler: Scott Whitlam is TheGamblingAddict who fled Melbourne to a remote country town to escape his creditors. However, the people he owed money to pursued him and winds up committing embezzlement to pay them off, and then commits murder to hide the embezzlement.]]

''The Dry'' is an Australian 2020 mystery/thriller film based on [[TheFilmOfTheBook the novel of the same name]] by Jane Harper. Creator/EricBana stars in the lead role of Aaron Falk, along with Creator/GenevieveOReilly as Gretchen and Creator/KeirODonnell as Raco.

An upcoming sequel, ''Force of Nature: The Dry 2'' has been produced, based on Harper's follow-up novel.

A sequel, ''Force of Nature: The Dry 2'' has been produced, based on Harper's follow-up novel.

A sequel ''Force of Nature: The Dry 2'', has been produced

Federal Police agent Aaron Falk returns to his home town after an absence of over twenty years to attend the funeral of his childhood friend, Luke, who allegedly killed his wife and child before taking his own life - a victim of the madness that has ravaged this community after more than a decade of drought. When Falk reluctantly agrees to stay and investigate the crime, he opens up an old wound--the death of 17- year-old Ellie Deacon. Falk begins to suspect these two crimes, separated by decades, are connected. As he struggles to prove not only Luke's innocence but also his own, Falk finds himself pitted against the prejudice towards him and and pent-up rage of a terrified community.

* TheBogan: Grant Dow embodies every negative stereotype of the small town, working class, macho {{Jerkass}}.

''The Dry'' is an Australian 2020 mystery/thriller film based on [[TheFilmOfTheBook the novel of the same name]] by Jane Harper. Creator/EricBana stars in the lead role of Aaron Falk, along with Creator/GenevieveOReilly as Gretchen and Kier O'Donnell as Raco.

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* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler:Ellie's mother abandoned the family is order escape her abusive husband Mal. Unfortunately, [[AbusiveParents Mal just redirected his abuse, both physical and sexual, to his daughter Ellie.]]]]