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Laura Jones (writer)
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April 1988 (USA)
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Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour...
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An Undeservedly Obscure Gem
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Judy Davis | ... | Lillie | |
| Jan Adele | ... | Bet | |
| Claudia Karvan | ... | Ally | |
| Frankie J. Holden | ... | Lester | |
| John Clayton | ... | Col | |
| Colin Friels | ... | Mick | |
| Toni Scanlan | ... | Mary | |
| Monica Trapaga | ... | Tracey | |
| Barry Rugless | ... | Club manager | |
| 'Cowboy' Bob Purtell | ... | Joe | |
| Mark Hembrow | ... | Mechanic | |
| Emily Stocker | ... | Michelle | |
| Marc Aden | ... | Jason (as Marc Gray) | |
| Jan Boreham | ... | Mona | |
| May Howlett | ... | Mick's mum |
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Spain:101 min | USA:101 min
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Featured in "60 Minutes: On Thin Ice/The Memory Pill/Love Her Way (#29.1)" (2007)
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Johnny B Goode
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"High Tide" is one of the greatest movies most people haven't seen. If you just read a plot summary, the story may seem unbelievable. But thanks to writing, acting, directing and music scoring of the highest caliber, this film works on every level. According to director Gillian Armstrong, the role played by Judy Davis was originally written for a man. But Armstrong's husband suggested rewriting it for a woman. Davis gives one of her best performances in "High Tide," and that's saying something for such an accomplished actress. Physically she is a very mannered performer, reminiscent of such great actresses of the 1930s and '40s as Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn. But Davis is also incredibly subtle. Just watch her face and you can see every thought process, every emotion. Davis' performance was helped tremendously by Gillian Armstrong, who is not afraid of lingering on a closeup way beyond when lesser directors would have cut away. It's one of her greatest strengths as a director. She allows a scene to play out. Nothing is rushed so everything unfolds naturally, helps add to the realism of "High Tide." (She does the same thing in "The Last Days of Chez Nous," another of her best efforts.) This is a movie to be cherished. It's an object lesson to mainstream Hollywood on how to turn what could have been a sappy, cliched movie into a moving work of art.