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Lantana (2001) 7.3
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Metascore: 84/100
Reviews: 193 user | 96 critic | 29 from Metacritic.com Psychiatrist Valerie Somers disappears one night; Det. Leon Zat is called to investigate; his wife has been getting advice from Somers. Director:Ray Lawrence |
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Paula D'Amato
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Patrick Phelan
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Detective Claudia Wiss
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Pete O'May
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Steve Valdez
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Lisa
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Old man in pyjamas
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Sam Zat
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Dylan Zat
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Trust. A dead body in bracken. A cop cheats on his unhappy wife who, in secret, sees a psychiatrist whose own marriage is corroded by grief: she thinks her husband is having an affair with a gay patient of hers. The cop's lover, Jane, is recently separated, and her neighbors - a couple with children - include a muscular unemployed man. Late one night, the doctor skids off a back road, finds a call box, and tries in vain to reach her husband. She sees headlights and flags down the driver. Later that night, Jane sees her neighbor park his truck and throw something into the lantana in a vacant lot. It's a woman's shoe. Unraveling the mystery lays bare five couples. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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EnglishRelease Date:
4 October 2001 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
A Floresta de Lantana See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
£92,566 (UK) (16 August 2002)Gross:
£499,549 (UK) (30 August 2002)Company Credits
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MBP (Germany), Jan Chapman Productions, Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC) See more »
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Jane O'May: You know, you really should have told me that you have a weak heart.
Leon Zat: I don't.
Jane O'May: It's because I don't want to have an affair with...
Leon Zat: For Christ's sake, I don't have a weak heart, all right? This is not an affair, it's a one-night stand that happened twice.
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Written by Adrian Van De Velde
Origin Music Publishing
Licensed courtesy of Festival Music Publishing
Performed by Ego featuring Elizabeth Wei
Courtesy of Origin Recordings
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The first film to win all of the top six categories of the Australian Film Institute (AFI) awards: best picture, best director, best actress, best actor, best supporting actress, best supporting actor. It also won for best adapted screenplay. This record remained unbroken until all 13 AFI categories were swept by Somersault. See more »Goofs
When Nik is at the police station explaining what happened the night he picked up Valerie, we see it as he is describing it - and as she gets into his truck, you can hear the door slam before it is even shut. See more »Quotes
Leon Zat: [Leon has chest pains after having sex with Jane] I get this pain in my chest sometimes.Jane O'May: You know, you really should have told me that you have a weak heart.
Leon Zat: I don't.
Jane O'May: It's because I don't want to have an affair with...
Leon Zat: For Christ's sake, I don't have a weak heart, all right? This is not an affair, it's a one-night stand that happened twice.
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Grateful acknowledgement of assistance to all our families See more »Soundtracks
"Snowdrop"Written by Adrian Van De Velde
Origin Music Publishing
Licensed courtesy of Festival Music Publishing
Performed by Ego featuring Elizabeth Wei
Courtesy of Origin Recordings
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"Lantana" is one of those rare films which which transcends entertainment with meaningful messages, however subliminal, while avoiding the dumbing-down, flocking, hype, titillation, and other excesses of the usual Tinseltown product and relying solely on good story telling. The film uses the nonlinear Magnoia-esque jigsaw puzzle approach showing a piece of each player one at a time while methodically completing the final puzzle picture. Though the film involves a cop, a shrink, a missing woman, infidelity, adultery, grief, suspicion, etc., "Lantana" isn't about any of these things; a fact which is made clear in the end when the final puzzle piece is dropped into place. A must see for mature realists into serious drama.