Don't Tell (2017 film)
Don't Tell is a May 2017 Australian drama film directed by Tori Garrett and starring Jack Thompson, Aden Young and Sara West. It was based on the 2017 novel of the same name by solicitor Stephen Roche. The basis of the film has been paralleled with the film Spotlight, based on the Boston systematic child sexual abuse by a religious institution. The Missy Higgins song "Torchlight" was composed for the film. Plot synopsis Don't Tell is based on the true story of Lyndal, a young woman who had been sexually abused at a prestigious private school and, with the help of a determined lawyer, sued the powerful church that denied her abuse for ten years. Cast Jack Thompson as Bob Myers, trial counsel Sara West as Lyndal, victim Aden Young as Stephen Roche, solicitor Rachel Griffiths as Joy Conolly, psychologist Jacqueline McKenzie as Jean Dalton, counsellor Susie Porter as Sue, mother of Lyndal Gyton Grantley as Kevin Guy, offender Robert Coleby as John Bowers Martin Sacks as Tony, father of Lyndal Robert Taylor as Robert Brewster, school council chairman Background A school boardermaster of a Toowoomba private school was criminally charged in November 1990 with sexual offences involving children. He