An Exercise in Discipline: Peel

19831983
9m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

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Short Comedy

A family get into a battle of wills on the side of the highway when their boy defiantly throws orange peels out the window.A family get into a battle of wills on the side of the highway when their boy defiantly throws orange peels out the window.A family get into a battle of wills on the side of the highway when their boy defiantly throws orange peels out the window.

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

153,808

19,092

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Awards
- 1 win

Trivia
This short film is featured on the Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-ray for Sweetie (1989) and streams on The Criterion Channel.

Quotes
[first lines]
Sister/aunt: You don't want other opinions, don't ask for them.

Connections
Featured in Women make film - uusi matka elokuvaan (2018)

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Review

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6/10

Redheads

A man, his sister, and his son are driving along the road, anxious to get home so the woman can see her soap opera. She is, anyway. The son is peeling an orange and tossing the peel out the window. The man tells him to put the peel in a bag, so it can be disposed of at home. The son refuses.

This early Jane Campion short -- it won a Palme D'Or at Cannes for short subjects -- is about several things: the legendary anger of redheads, the fact that Australians talk like Australians, and littering. It makes its point not with the orange peels, which are, after all, biodegradable, but with the other roadside litter, all of which is ugly, but some of which is gross.

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