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Welcome Stranger (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
85 min + 48 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Jason Turley

Written By:
Jason Turley

Actors:
Suzanne Barr ..... Sandra
Randall Berger ..... Goran
John Brumpton ..... Stan
John Flaus ..... Old Man
Lee Foyster ..... Elaine
Okan Husnu ..... Paolo
Mirjana Kostantinovic ..... Ti
Peter Lesley ..... Frank
Jo McKenzie ..... Megan
Andy McPhee ..... Rodney
Christian Poppi ..... Adam
Adam Scott ..... Luke
Mel Stevens ..... Kim
Susan Strafford ..... Gloria

Synopsis:

A strange day begins for a 18 year old Adam with a phone call from an old school friend. After several years without any contact, Luke is eager for a reunion. Belwildered, Adam sets off to meet up with his childhood mate. What follows is a sequence of interactions with lukes family members, overlaid with a drug and alcohol binge. As the day progresses thrugh a series of funny, sad abd violent clashes it becomes clear that the stranger has little in common with the people he has been thrown in with. What all these characters do share through is an intense desire to be something more that what they are.

While digital video technology goes some in way in democratising the filmmaking process, movies that look like they've been edited in a person's bedroom also tend to accentuate the importance of other things -like a good story and interesting characters. Conceived on the kind of budget that would struggle to afford a bag of corn chips, writer/director Jason Turley's Welcome Stranger is an impressive work of DIY innovation but is limited as a film experience. Overcoming greasy editing, unprofessional performances and butchered sound mixing, it is instead Turley's plot and pacing that don't quite gel. We follow 18-year-old Adam (Christian Poppi) on a day that begins with a phone call and ends in drunken debauchery. The call is from a mate he hasn't seen since primary school, Luke (Adam Scott), and the story then hovers drowsily around encounters with Luke's family: his bong smoking dad, his bitchy sister and his party-girl mother, the kind of woman for whom the term MILF was affectionately coined. Adam is shy, laconic and reactionary, so the plot simply unfolds around him, but his character does develop in depth and dimension and the ending of the film hits a melancholic note of reflection and poise.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 31 May, 2013.

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