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28 August 2003 (Australia) moreGenre:
ComedyTagline:
Placid Lake isn't your usual rebel. He wants to work in insurance. morePlot:
An exuberant, sharply satirical comedy about two parentally neglected teenagers who find the courage to believe in themselves full summary | add synopsisAwards:
4 wins & 11 nominations moreUser Comments:
Amusing double critique moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jordan Brooking | ... | Young Placid | |
| Ben Lee | ... | Placid Lake | |
| Rose Byrne | ... | Gemma Taylor | |
| Miranda Richardson | ... | Sylvia Lake | |
| Lucas Fraccaro | ... | Bull (5 years old) | |
| Cruise Moylan | ... | Angus (5 years old) | |
| Zan Cross | ... | Lachie (5 years old) | |
| Garry McDonald | ... | Doug Lake | |
| Eleeza Hooker | ... | Young Gemma | |
| Jesse Spence | ... | Jenny | |
| Simone Cullinan | ... | Sharon | |
| Socratis Otto | ... | Bozo | |
| Toby Schmitz | ... | Bull | |
| Nathaniel Dean | ... | Lachie | |
| Stephen James King | ... | Angus |
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Australia:89 minCountry:
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[first lines]Placid Lake: I try to find the positives in my experiences
Young Placid: [dressed in a frilly dress for his first day of school, and about to be pushed onto the playground by his hippie mother] Mummy, I *can't*.
Sylvia Lake: Darling, just remember you're challenging their pre-conceived notions of sexuality.
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Amusing, interesting and not-so-subtle postmodern critique of Australia's consumerist-capitalist society is (almost) brilliantly countered by an innovative critique of the complete rejection of said. Richardson and McDonald do become a little tiring as Placid's hippie parents their characters are given far too much screen-time for what little change, if any, we see in them. Singer-songwriter Ben Lee, best known for his hit album Breathing Tornados and his single Cigarettes Will Kill You, does well in a medium he never intended to broach, but the brilliant Byrne was perhaps cast below her abilities here in very much a supporting role; a problem that continued to repeat itself in her Australian films released in 2003. As a product, the film was never going to be a stunning box-office success, and that it was even released outside art-house cinemas is perhaps more a hopeful testament to Lee's pulling power than anything. On a more philosophical level, though, the film is a well-worked blend of postmodernist challenges, and the solution' it offers (or which it doesn't) is, all in all, satisfying.