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Lantana Details

2001 Certificate 15 Certificate 15
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Ray Lawrence's LANTANA is an intelligent, well-written, well-acted film that is much more than just another cop thriller--it's more like YOU CAN COUNT ON ME with its realistic, complex relationships and believable characters. The film opens with a slow pan over a dead body, eerily reminiscent of BLUE VELVET. Anthony LaPaglia .. Read more

Starring Geoffrey Rush, Anthony La Paglia, Barbara Hershey, Rachael Blake
Director Ray Lawrence
Genres Drama, Romance

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Ray Lawrence's LANTANA is an intelligent, well-written, well-acted film that is much more than just another cop thriller--it's more like YOU CAN COUNT ON ME with its realistic, complex relationships and believable characters. The film opens with a slow pan over a dead body, eerily reminiscent of BLUE VELVET. Anthony LaPaglia stars as Leon, a Sydney police detective who is cheating on his wife, Sonja (Kerry Armstrong), with a married woman from their dance class (Rachael Blake), even though he still loves his wife. There's something missing from his life, but he's not sure what. His relationship with his son is strained, and even his partner, Claudia (Leah Purcell), knows something is wrong. But as his affair heats up and a murder mystery that seems to involve all of the people in his life begins to consume his attentions, he is forced to reexamine his future both as a family man and a cop.
LANTANA won seven Australian Film Institute Awards, including best picture, best director for Lawrence, best actor for LaPaglia, best actress for Armstrong, best supporting awards for both Blake and Colosimo, and best adapted screenplay by Andrew Bovell, who based the script on his play SPEAKING IN TONGUES. As the murder investigation gets more complicated and the tangled web leads to even more lying, cheating, and deception, the acting intensifies, and the sharp dialogue allows the characters to blossom as beautifully as the lantana bush referred to in the title.

Starring Geoffrey Rush, Anthony La Paglia, Barbara Hershey, Rachael Blake, Vince Colosimo
Director Ray Lawrence
Studio WL
Run time DVD: 1 hr 55 mins
LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 55 mins
Certificate Certificate 15 DVD
Certificate 15 LOVEFiLM Instant
Genres Drama, Romance
Language DVD: English
LOVEFiLM Instant: English
Hearing-impaired English
Released Production year: 2001

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