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6.7/10   156 votes
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Director:
Ann Turner
Writer:
Ann Turner (writer)
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Release Date:
18 May 1989 (Australia) more
Genre:
Drama | Fantasy | Horror more
Tagline:
A tale of innocence corrupted. more
Plot:
An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia. | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Growing up in Australia in the 50's more (5 total)

Cast

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Rebecca Smart ... Celia Carmichael
Nicholas Eadie ... Ray Carmichael
Victoria Longley ... Alice Tanner
Mary-Anne Fahey ... Pat Carmichael
Margaret Ricketts ... Grandmother
Alexander Hutchinson ... Steve Tanner
Adrian Mitchell ... Karl Tanner
Callie Gray ... Meryl Tanner
Martin Sharman ... Evan Tanner
Clair Couttie ... Heather Goldman
Alex Menglet ... Mr. Goldman
Amelia Frid ... Stephanie Burke

William Zappa ... Inspector John Burke
Feon Keane ... Soapy Burke
Louise Le Nay ... Debbie Burke
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Celia: Child of Terror (USA) (video box title)
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Runtime:
102 min | USA:103 min
Country:
Australia
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Iceland:12 | Australia:M
Filming Locations:
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Company:
Seon Film Productions more

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Continuity: The burn mark on Celia's rabbit is missing at the fishing docks. more

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1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful.
Growing up in Australia in the 50's, 16 August 1998
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Author: Joergen Pagh Jensen (juvelen@get2net.dk) from Frederiksvaerk, Denmark

Celia is a 9 year old girl with a lot of imagination. She lives with her family in South Australia in the fifties. She has a strong will, lots of charm and wit. Her family are communists, which makes them kind of outcasts in the society, and Celia has to fight mobbing schoolmates as well as discriminating teachers. She manages to do that very well. All this gives a rather frank and funny description of childhood problems, and Rebecca Smart plays her part extremely well. But Celia is not just a charming kid - when she hates, she really hates. And when she fantasizes about mysterious evil animals, she can't quite distinguish fantasy from reality. Which might seem rather normal, but Celia lives in a house, where a loaded gun is available... This movie is very entertaining, giving a varied picture of growing-up - and one can really feel the emotions and confusions, which is a part of being nine years old. At times the film becomes perhaps a bit too confusing - it can be quite difficult to follow the girls vivid imagination. But I'll guess, you have the same problem in the real world...

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