Alec and his lover Pete find themselves thrust into the role of fatherhood when Alec's 15-year-old estranged daughter Violet suddenly shows up at their door. She has come to get to know Alec and to escape her shrewish mother's endless stream of deadbeat boyfriends. Pete answers the door and Violet mistakes him for Alec. For Pete, the situation is ...
Ann Turner wrote and directed this genuinely creepy amalgam of Father Knows Best and Death Wish. Celia Carmichael (Rebecca Smart) is a lonely nine-year-old girl growing up in the Melbourne suburbs in the late 1950s, who is the victim of several traumas with horrific results. She first finds her grandmother's dead body. Then she has nightmares from ...
The 1988 Australian miniseries Shiralee was, like the 1957 film of the same name, based on a bestselling novel by D'Arcy Niland. A shiralee is Australian slang for the bundle carried about by a swagman (a tramp or thief). In this instance, the "bundle" is the 10-year-old daughter of an Australian migrant laborer whose wife has left him. The ...
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