Product Information
Celebrated British-born actress Rachel Ward (THE THORN BIRDS) makes her feature directorial debut with this unique and occasionally provocative drama, featuring long-time husband Bryan Brown and produced in Brown's native Australia.Product Identifiers
ProducerBryan Brown
EAN5060103792146
eBay Product ID (ePID)102239598
Product Key Features
ActorMaeve Dermody, Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown, Ben Mendelsohn
Film/TV TitleBeautiful Kate
DirectorRachel Ward
LanguageEnglish
Run Time97 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2010
FormatDVD
FeaturesMaking of, Widescreen
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureAustralia
Additional InformationCelebrated British-born actress Rachel Ward (THE THORN BIRDS) makes her feature directorial debut with this unique and occasionally provocative drama, featuring long-time husband Bryan Brown and produced in Brown's native Australia. A loose adaptation of the 1982 novel by Newton Thornburg (Cutter's Way), it transposes the events of that roman from Chicago to an Australian farm. Ben Mendelsohn stars as Ned Kendall, a fortyish author who takes his young, slightly uncouth girlfriend, Toni (Maeve Dermody) along to visit his dying father, Bruce (Brown) a failed politician and farmer now cared for by daughter Sally (Rachel Griffiths) on the clan's Aussie property. The relationship between Ned and Bruce remains supremely dysfunctional, as father constantly berates and pushes his son; the focal points of their conflicts spring from the teenage death of Ned's twin sister Kate (Sophie Lowe) and the suicide of his older brother Cliff (Josh McFarlane). After Toni and Sally each storm out of the home in a nasty huff, director Ward intercuts two parallel narratives: the circumstances (including Kate's insatiable sexual curiosity during adolescence) that once led to the family's two tragic losses, and, in a contemporary framework, the delicate steps that Bruce and Ned begin to take toward reconciliation, in the period immediately preceding Bruce's death.
ScreenwriterRachel Ward
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleBeautiful Kate
Consumer AdviceContains very strong language, strong sex, and incest theme