DIR Roger Donaldson
PROD Roger Donaldson, Larry Parr
SCR Peter Hansard, Roger Donaldson, Bruno Lawrence
DP Graeme Crowley
CAST Bruno Lawrence, Anna Maria Monticelli, Greer Robson, Keith Aberdein, Desmond Kelly, Lynne Robson
ED Michael Horton
MUSIC Sharon O'Neill
Al Shaw’s life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the Smash Palace. His French wife, Jacqui, doesn’t appreciate the lack of attention due to Al’s obsession with cars. When Al finds her in the arms of another man, he takes his daughter, Georgie and heads for the bush, desperately hoping to hold on to the only family he has left. —IMDb
DIR Roger Donaldson
PROD Roger Donaldson, Larry Parr
SCR Ian Mune, Arthur Baysting
DP Michael Seresin
CAST Sam Neill, Ian Mune, Warren Oates, Nevan Rowe, Ian Watkin, Donna Akersten, Don Selwyn, Bernard Kearns.
ED Ian John
MUSIC Matthew Brown, David Calder, Murray Grindlay Recluse Smith (Sam Neill) is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions. —IMDb
Television commercial director Christine Jeffs makes her feature debut with this intense family drama about the collapse of a marriage and the dissolution of a mother-daughter relationship. Thirteen-year-old Janey (Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki) and her younger brother Jim (Aaron Murphy) are largely left alone in their seaside bungalow as their parents try to piece their marriage back together. While Janey’s mom Kate (Sarah Peirse) gets blind drunk, flirts with other men, and nurses hangovers, her father Ed recoils in disgust at his wife’s dissolute behavior. The family’s simmering tensions explode with the appearance of Cady, a rakish freelance photographer. While Kate immediately starts to flirt with the younger man, Janey herself is attracted to him, believing that he is her only ticket out of her dysfunctional family. Soon Kate and Janey find themselves locked in a desperate and despairing battle for Cady. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. —allmovie guide
Awards
Asia-Pacific Film Festival - Special Jury Award 2002
New Zealand Film and TV Awards - Best Actress, Sarah Peirse
New Zealand Film and TV Awards - Best Juvenile Performer, Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki
New Zealand Film and TV Awards - Best Supporting Actor, Alistair Browning Download
