Silt: Bruce Beresford

Puberty Blues

Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a new group of boys. Meet Sue (Jad Capelja), a teenage Australian girl in the late 70s, whose life mainly consists of doing what everyone else does

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

Barry McKenzie’s Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and

Money Movers

A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house. In order to raise the money for his “breakthrough” film Breaker Morant, Australian director Bruce Beresford dashed off the guaranteed audience pleaser

Don’s Party

On the night of the 1969 Australian election, Don holds a party in his suburban Sydney house, where his raucous, rude, embarrassing, extrovert friends discuss sex, politics, and their lives, and seduce each others wives. Don is a schoolteacher living

Contract, The

A father and his son attempt to bring in an assassin to the authorities, but his dangerous associates have other plans. Ray Keene (John Cusack), a father who wants to redeem himself in the eyes of his son (Jamie Anderson),

Double Jeopardy

A woman framed for her husband’s murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can’t be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him. When Nick Parsons appears to be murdered his wife

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