Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by rico (A) on July 29, 2007 at 12:15:18

In this Australian film Cate Blanchett plays a heroin addict, clean for four years, who is trying to get a $40,000 nbank loan so she can buy out the owner of the video rental store she manages for him. Along the way her old lover appears, fresh from Vancouver. He is responsible for her addiction and also her brother's loss of a leg in an auto accident he (the lover) caused. Other sub-plots include her stepfather's attempt to arrest his own addiction and hie involvment with a local dealer (Sam Neil in a--for him--smallish part). The characters come together at the end for a climactic series of events. Very serious and very well acted by all. The Australian dialect is at times difficult to follow for a non-Aussie.