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Writers:
Andrew Bovell (written by)
Patricia Cornelius (writer)
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Release Date:
10 September 2009 (Australia) more
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Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home. | add synopsis
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(5 articles)
Lff: Show Me, Don't Tell Me
 (From FilmExperience. 28 October 2009, 8:00 PM, PDT)

Not So Solitary
 (From FilmInk.com.au. 26 October 2009, 2:28 PM, PDT)

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Brilliant, absorbing, moving more (10 total)

Cast

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Miranda Otto ... Bianca

Frances O'Connor ... Rhonda
Deborra-Lee Furness ... Tanya

Tasma Walton ... Gail

Sophie Lowe ... Katrina

Harrison Gilbertson ... Daniel
Costas Kilias
Eva Lazzaro ... Stacey
Victoria Haralabidou ... Gina

Ferdinand Hoang ... Chris

Dennis Kreusler ... Train Time Announcer (voice)
Monica Maughan ... Laurel Parker

Samuel Ross Forbes Wright ... Joe Franklin (voice)
Reef Ireland ... Orton
Wayne Blair ... James Parker
Eamon Farren ... Roo
Kellie Jones ... Constable Clark
Danielle McAlpine ... Prostitute
Kadriye Secgin ... Couple in Love
Andrew Lyons ... Pool player
Anastasia Baboussouras ... Trisha
Amanda Gaye McDonald ... Prostitute
Van Rune Scott ... Dj
Chanara Hyde ... Working Girl
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113 min
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This is the second time Monica Maughan has played Wayne Blair's (adoptive) mother. more

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Brilliant, absorbing, moving, 15 September 2009
10/10
Author: t-pitt-1 from Australia

I totally disagree with the first review of Blessed. I found the film utterly absorbing and very moving and I was totally caught up in the unfolding dramas of the children's (and their mothers') lives. I don't agree that the story was clichéd or the characters one-dimensional. Other members of my film discussion group said the same thing - not one person found fault with the film. It was bleak and sad but certainly spoke to me as a mother and former teacher. The young actors who played the children were marvellous and the adult actors played their parts in a very low-key and realistic way. I barely registered the fact that some of them were among Australia's top actors. As I came out of the cinema I was thinking, 'There but for the grace of god go I...' Anna Kokkinos has done a wonderful job. The cinema I saw it in was full, and at the end hardly anybody left while the end credits were rolling (most unusual). You could have heard a pin drop. I highly recommend this film.

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