Bliss (Original Theatrical & Director's Cut Versions) - 2-DVD Set

Bliss (Original Theatrical & Director's Cut Versions) - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
236 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Uncut
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1985 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Ray Lawrence

Written By:
Peter Carey
Ray Lawrence

Actors:
Barry Otto ..... Harry Joy
Lynette Curran ..... Bettina Joy
Helen Jones ..... Honey Barbara
Gia Carides ..... Lucy Joy
Miles Buchanan ..... David Joy
Jeff Truman ..... Joel
Tim Robertson ..... Alex Duval
Bryan Marshall ..... Adrian Clunes
Jon Ewing ..... Aldo
Kerry Walker ..... Alice Dalton
Paul Chubb ..... Reverend Des
Sarah De Teliga ..... Harry's Mother (as Sara De Teliga)
Saskia Post ..... Harry's Daughter (as Saski Post)
George Whaley ..... Vance
Robert Menzies ..... Damien

Synopsis:

After suffering a near-death experience, an executive realizes that his seemingly ideal life has become a horrifying nightmare in this dark Australian satire. Based on the novel by Peter Carey, who also penned the screenplay, the film begins with a deceptively calm, idyllic day in the life of ad man Harry Joy (Barry Otto). A heart attack leads Harry to experience a brief moment of brain death, however, and he awakens with a far darker vision of the world. In quick succession, he learns that his wife is cheating on him, his son has become a drug dealer, and his daughter is a junkie. Even his perfect career has become a nightmare, as he discovers that his latest client is in fact a heartless, deadly polluter. Enraged, Harry is determined to live a morally righteous life, a notion that proves an anathema to everyone around him. Several memorably bleak and explicit sequences may repel some viewers, while others will be disappointed that the satire becomes slower and less focused as the film continues. Nevertheless, Bliss's daring, bitter look at the modern world received a good deal of critical acclaim, particularly in its home country, where it won an Australian Academy Award.

Barry Otto plays a popular ad executive with a warm and loving family. Such happiness is too good to last, and indeed, Otto dies of a heart attack less than ten minutes into the movie. Upon arriving in Heaven, Otto learns a lot about his so-called idyllic existence that isn't to his liking. Thus, when he's revived in the hospital, he makes it his mission in life to 'cleanse' the world, in the most repellant manner possible. It's best not to go into further detail here. The winner of an Australian Academy award, Bliss is the sort of film for which the term 'Matter of Taste' was invented.

An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favors from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbera.

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