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Stir (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Collectors Edition
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1980 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Stephen Wallace

Written By:
Bob Jewson

Actors:
Bryan Brown ..... China Jackson
Max Phipps ..... Norton
Dennis Miller ..... Redford
Garry Waddell ..... Dave
Phil Motherwell ..... Alby
Michael Gow ..... Andrew
Edward Robshaw ..... Partidge
Tex Morton ..... The Govenor (as Robert 'Tex' Morton)
Ray Marshall ..... Chalmers
Syd Heylen ..... Old Bob
Robert Noble ..... Riley
Paul Sonkkila ..... McIntosh
Keith Gallasch ..... Tony
Les Newcombe ..... Hogan
James Marsh ..... Webster

Synopsis:

Nominated for 11 AFI awards (including Best Film and Best Actor) STIR is the brutal, unflinching story of the bloodiest riot in our prison history. Unwillingly finding themselves at the centre of this violent event are China Jackson (Bryan Brown), a semi-habitual minor crim wanting to keep his nose clean, and Norton (Max Phipps), a complex warder deeply ashamed of his former treatment of prisoners and now seeking redemption. STIR shows how both men are ultimately driven to desperate violence when tensions inside the gaol build to an explosive finale where the prisoners are caged, jeered, gassed and then made to run the gauntlet of armoured revenge-seeking warders. Harsh, uncompromising and as violent and unrestrained as the system and men it depicts, STIR is one of the most harrowing and controversial movies ever made in this country.

Starring Bryan Brown ...the real story of Australia's bloodiest prison riot! 'The best Australian film of this, or any other year... possibly the most important picture you'll ever see.' Paul Fischer. Nominated for 11 AFI awards (including Best Film and Best Actor) STIR is the brutal, unflinching story of the bloodiest riot in our prison history. Harsh, uncompromising and as violent and unrestrained as the system and men it depicts, STIR is one of the most harrowing and controversial movies ever made in this country. 'The choicest ingredients of prison-pic precursors from 'Riot in Cell Block 11' to 'Scum'.' Time Out.

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 06 December, 2005.

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