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Caddie (DVD) (*)

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

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

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

Running Time:
103 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

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

Movie filmed in 1976 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Donald Crombie

Written By:
Joan Long
Caddie Marsh

Actors:
Helen Morse ..... Caddie Marsh
Takis Emmanuel ..... Peter
Jack Thompson ..... Ted
Jacki Weaver ..... Josie
Melissa Jaffer ..... Leslie
Ron Blanchard ..... Bill
Drew Forsythe ..... Sonny
Kirrily Nolan ..... Esther
Lynette Curran ..... Maudie
June Salter ..... Mrs. Marks
John Ewart ..... Paddy Reilly
John Gaden ..... Solicitor
Jane Harders ..... Vikki
Phillip Hinton ..... John Marsh
Mary Mackay ..... Mater

Synopsis:

Caddie is the story of a fiercely independent young mother who, when confronted with her husband's infidelity, takes her children and leaves their comfortable middle class surroundings behind, to fend for herself. Without skills, and faced with the responsibility of housing and feeding her kids, she gets work as a barmaid and when SP Bookie Ted (Jack Thompson) comes into the pub she earns herself a new name into the bargain. He calls her Caddie because she has 'class and beauty', just like his brand new Cadillac automobile.

Caddie (Helen Morse) leaves her adulterous and brutish husband and takes her two children with her to Sydney. Forced to work as a barmaid in a pub she struggles to survive. A brief affair with Ted (Jack Thompson) ends badly, but she falls in love with a Greek immigrant (Takis Emmanuel).

The film is set in part in Sydney during the 1920s and 1930s, including the Great Depression, and tells of the life of a young middle class woman struggling to raise two children after her marriage breaks up.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 07 February, 2008.

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