The Fringe Dwellers

The Fringe Dwellers (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1986 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Bruce Beresford

Written By:
Bruce Beresford
Rhoisin Beresford

Actors:
Justine Saunders ..... Mollie Comeaway
Kristina Nehm ..... Trilby Comeaway
Kylie Belling ..... Noonah Comeaway
Marlene Bell ..... Hannah
Wilkie Collins ..... Dr. Lymons
Alan Dargin ..... Bruce
Ernie Dingo ..... Phil
Dianne Eden ..... Matron
Bob Maza ..... Joe Comeaway
Michele Miles ..... Blanchie
Bill Sandy ..... Skippy
Anne Saward ..... May
Malcolm Silva ..... Charlie
Lisa-Jane Stockwell ..... Nurse McCarthy
Terry Thompson ..... Horrie
Michelle Torres ..... Audrena
Robert Ugle ..... Tim
Denis Walker ..... Bartie Comeaway
Kathryn Walker ..... Eva (as Kath Walker)
Maureen Watson ..... Rene

Synopsis:

Bruce Beresford returned to the austerity of his first Australian films with The Fringe Dwellers. Kristina Nehm stars as an Aborigine woman named Trilby, who along with her tribespeople lives on the fringes of "accepted" Australian society. Trilby's mother (Justine Saunders) urges her family to remove themselves from squalor and move up to a fashionable all-white suburb. What with the snobbery of her new neighbors and an onslaught of visiting relatives, Trilby never has a moment of happiness. She seeks solace in the arms of her boyfriend (Ernie Dingo), but this only results in an unwanted pregnancy. Her "escape" to a better life is an indirect result of her newborn child's death. Bruce and Rhoisin Beresford adapted the script of The Fringe Dwellers from the novel by Nene Gare.

A quietly ambitious girl, Trilby persuades her mother, Mollie (Justine Saunders), to move into a prosperous white neighborhood somewhat beyond their means but to Trilby's dismay, the entire extended family moves with them.
With the white locals freely expressing their distaste for the new neighbors and Trilby's relationship with boyfriend Phil (Ernie Dingo) resulting in an unwanted pregnancy, things are not turning out how Trilby had imagined.
From award winning Director Bruce Beresford (The Club, Puberty Blues), Fringe Dwellers is a gentle yet compelling film about the difficulties of being a person who truly belongs in no world but their own.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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