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Overview
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Writers:
Joel Edgerton (written by) and
Matthew Dabner (written by) ...
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Release Date:
31 July 2008 (Australia) more
Tagline:
Some things can't be buried.
Plot:
A man's life begins to unravel when his mistress brings him a bag of cash. | full synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 11 nominations more
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(10 articles)
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Coen Brothers Safe more (9 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | David Roberts | ... | Raymond Yale |
| Claire van der Boom | ... | Carla Smith |
 | Joel Edgerton | ... | Billy |
 | Anthony Hayes | ... | Greg 'Smithy' Smith |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Lisa Bailey | ... | Wendy |
| Lucy Bell | ... | Martha Yale |
 | Paul Caesar | ... | Sergeant Gary Miles |
| Mia Chippendale | ... | Mia |
| Thomas Chippendale | ... | Thomas |
| Amanda Crompton | ... | Jenny |
| Maree D'Arcy | ... | Smithy's Mum |
 | Kieran Darcy-Smith | ... | Barney |
 | Brendan Donoghue | ... | Leonard Long |
| Luke Doolan | ... | Smithy's Mate |
| Tracey Furtchmann | ... | Lauren |
| Greg Hatton | ... | Smithy's Mate |
| Paul He | ... | Restaurant Manager |
 | Damon Herriman | ... | Eddie |
| Jacinta Hocking | ... | News Reporter |
| Bill Hunter | ... | Gil Hubbard |
| Mia Irvin | ... | Jake & Jenny's Baby |
| Eliza Logan | ... | Rita Smith |
| Tony Lynch | ... | Santa The Fireman |
| Hanna Mangan Lawrence | ... | Lily |
| Julian Morrow | ... | Dale |
| Peter Phelps | ... | Jake |
| Stephen Weston | ... | Charlie |
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Rated R for violence and language.
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105 min
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Australia:MA | New Zealand:R16 | USA:R (certificate #45473)
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How Lovers Pray more
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As one of those who saw the premiere of this film at the Sydney Film Festival, I can assure you if I was on the "edgerton" of my seat, it was in disbelief as implausibility piled upon implausibility until the film collapsed under their weight.
The film started well, and for a while I was happy to go along with the well-worn Noir formula of the small crime that goes wrong, and all attempts to cover it up only make things worse for the illicit lovers, and the crimes get bigger and bigger. But they also get stupider and stupider, until you just feel your intelligence is being insulted. If, as bilingizard seems to be suggesting, black humour of the order of the Coen Brothers was being attempted, then I suggest some wit (other than that involving the fate of the dogs) should have been attempted. Nor do I think David Roberts was an acceptable lead. The character was dour and unpleasant from the beginning (making it hard to care what happened to him and his paramour) and the performance added no light or shade or leavenings of humanity.
I agree it looks good, and the direction is stylish. But the plot is not just full of holes, but sinkholes that suddenly open up under the feet of the characters, and the audience.