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High Tide (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1987 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Gillian Armstrong

Written By:
Laura Jones

Actors:
Judy Davis ..... Lillie
Jan Adele ..... Bet
Claudia Karvan ..... Ally
Frankie J. Holden ..... Lester
John Clayton ..... Col
Colin Friels ..... Mick
Toni Scanlan ..... Mary
Monica Trapaga ..... Tracey
Barry Rugless ..... Club manager
'Cowboy' Bob Purtell ..... Joe
Mark Hembrow ..... Mechanic
Emily Stocker ..... Michelle
Marc Gray ..... Jason
Jan Boreham ..... Mona
May Howlett ..... Mick's mum

Synopsis:

Gillian Armstrong directed this powerful and moving film containing a brilliant performance by Judy Davis. The story takes place in the small New South Wales seaside village of Eden. Davis is Lillie, who is renting a run-down trailer as she waits for her car to be repaired. One night, when Lillie is drunk and cannot walk from the toilet block back to her trailer, a teenage girl, Ally (Claudia Karvan) - who lives with her free-spirited grandmother Bet (Jan Adele) in another trailer in the trailer park - helps her back home. Lillie and Ally become good friends, and it is only when Lillie finally meets Bet that she realizes that Ally is, in fact, her own daughter, who she abandoned years earlier after the death of her husband.

Judy Davis stars as Lillie, a boozy backup singer for an Elvis impersonator, who wanders away from her job and makes a connection with a teen girl (Claudia Karvan) in a trailer park. But when she meets the girl's grandmother, Lillie realizes the girl is her daughter. Ashamed of the fact that she abandoned her daughter years earlier after her husband died, Lillie vows to make up for lost time. Gillian Armstrong (Little Women) directs.

Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour in a small town and finds her daughter in a mobile home park.

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