These Are The 30 Greatest Performances of Meryl Streep’s Iconic Career

20. A Cry in the Dark (1988)

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In 1988, Meryl Streep collaborated with filmmaker Fred Schepisi to adapt John Bryson’s book “Evil Angels” (1985). A Cry in the Dark takes place in Australia and is based on the famous case of Lindy Chamberlain, the mother who said her baby daughter had been dragged away and killed by one a wild Australian dingo. That this is still known as the “Dingo’s Got My Baby” movie nearly 31 years later is an insult to Meryl’s performance but also a testament to its power. She plays a closed-off, unsympathetic mother whom we believe is capable of murder. The film was hardly a crowd-pleaser. However, Streep’s performance garnered abundant critical acclaim.