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E
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| Brett Rogers | ... |
Matt O'Halloran
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| Julia Billington | ... |
Trish
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Simon Bolton | ... |
Johnny Rock
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Kim Antonios Hayes | ... |
Nadine Malouf
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Lex Marinos | ... |
Joseph Malouf
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| Karli Rae Grogan | ... |
Jaki
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Paige Barrand | ... |
Clubber
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Maxine Austin | ... |
Clubber
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Elka Kerkhofs | ... |
Clubber /
Doorslam Woman
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Leonie Paterson | ... |
Clubber
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Isabelle Lindores | ... |
Clubber
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Cassie Lineham | ... |
Clubber
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Julia Salt | ... |
Clubber
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| Kate Englefield | ... |
Out of it Woman
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A beautiful sexy DJ is forced to run when she stumbles on a bag of cash. Can she keep the money, conquer her demons, AND get the girl? All About E is a road trip, a comedy, and a love story. E, a beautiful, young Arabic Australian DJ seems to have it all. She is headlining at a top Sydney nightclub, has a home with her gay best-friend Matt and a world of women at her feet, but looks can be deceiving. Something is missing. When she and Matt, her husband of convenience, stumble on a bag of cash they are forced to hit the road. Suddenly E finds she has burnt too many bridges, and there is nowhere to run to but outback Australia and into the arms of ex-girlfriend Trish who broke her heart. E has to learn to face up to her past. She has to give her family the chance to accept who she really is and find the courage to live her dreams.
Our local small and historic theater plays a huge variety of movies and I was lucky enough to see this one come through with a director and lead actor's Q&A following the evening's screening. What a joy. It joins a select number of VERY Australian genre films which reflect a particularly Aussie sense of place, humour, subject and pace. The script pulls no punches and addresses its subject matter full on. There are ample lashings of pathos, comedy, subtle 'only an Australian audience would get this moment', brilliant suspense, and a rollicking good tour of rural Australia - all within a setting of a Lesbian movie that is so much more than that 'label'. Whilst mentioning the Aussie setting here - it is very much at the same time an international movie too ... there are just some unfamiliar places for those not from here.
The music and staging throughout the film is of the highest quality. In fact that is the reflective recall after leaving the movie house. So often a good movie is spoiled by inadequate production or a soundtrack which annoys the heck out of you ... not this one.
If it comes your way go see it. This is boutique film making at its best. How the heck they produced such a full item on the budget quoted is beyond me.