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Ann Turner (writer)
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18 May 1989 (Australia)
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A tale of innocence corrupted. more
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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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Growing up in Australia in the 50's
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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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Celia: Child of Terror (USA) (video box title)
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102 min | USA:103 min
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Continuity: The burn mark on Celia's rabbit is missing at the fishing docks.
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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...