Ben Gabriel

Fighting Back is a 1982 Australian film about troubled teenagers.

Ten boys and a dog are shipwrecked on an island in the Pacific. After a storm they discover another boat has been shipwrecked on the island. They make friends with two of the survivors, a nurse and ship's carpenter, but discover there are three other survivors who are ruthless mutineers.

Raoul finds solitude in an abandoned farm called 'Hurrah' after the horrendous death of his girlfriend. His only human contact is a neighbour who warns him of envious locals who may have been involved in the deaths of the previous owners. One day, Julia crashes into his front gate. She is looking to escape her life and 'Hurrah' may be the perfect place.

An evil scientist, Parta Beno, who has been found guilty of imprisoning and reducing in size inhabitants of various planets. As punishment he is exiled to a remote asteroid, with the only amenities being a crude laboratory. All the specimens that Parta Beno collected were sent back to their home worlds by the World Council, except those few that the Council had no knowledge of, let alone any idea about the planets from whence they came. The hand-picked crew of 'The Interpretaris' were given the mission of returning these aliens to their home planets.

Jamie Carr is a young man growing up in Bundaberg, Northern Queensland during the closing years of World War I. Jamie, who is in his final year of high school, was brought up by his grandmother. Grandma Carr is known and loved by all in the town, and does her best to help Jamie through the emotional turmoil of adolescence and a society struggling under old traditions and beliefs in a new country.

Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.