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1 May 2008 (Australia) moreTagline:
Choose the wrong road and you're...Plot:
A man is kidnapped from his city home in the quiet hours of the night and, the kidnapper, John Kelly... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Far too familiar more (4 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Travis McMahon | ... | John |
| David Lyons | ... | Eli |
 | Bryan Brown | ... | Rosco |
 | Shane Jacobson | ... | Thommo |
 | Zoe Tuckwell-Smith | ... | Sammy |
| Daniel Krige | ... | Mal |
| Celia Ireland | ... | Vesna |
| Seymon Eckert | ... | Katie |
| John Martin | ... | Petrol Attendant |
| Steve Rodgers | ... | Spuddo (voice) |
| Wayne Walker | ... | Ute Driver |
| Cheyanne | ... | Charlie Sparkles |
| Craig Bartlett | ... | Radio Operator |
| Robert Whiteside | ... | Bar Patron |
| Russell Hunt | ... | Bar Patron |
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Dolby Digital (Western Electric Sound System)Certification:
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Outback Australianisms abound in this feature-length short film with few conclusions, which is largely a road-movie vehicle for the exploration of class differences within 'middle-class' Australia. All is remarkably familiar here: the masculinity and the p*ss-taking dialogue, the hard authoritarian cop (a role reprised so often by Brown in various guises that he wouldn't need a script), the emptiness and harshness of the unfamiliar outback. Indeed, the presentation of 'the bush' as an anonymous, empty, faded wasteland (there are no romantic colour-enhanced horizon scenes here a la BENEATH CLOUDS – indeed, you can count the number of wide shots on one hand) is problematic in the context of the increasing recognition of Indigenous knowledge systems among other Australians; as such, this film participates in the Great Australian Silence regarding Indigenous presence and culture. While genuinely intriguing and pleasing to a palate accustomed to the 'Australian genre', CACTUS came twenty years too late.