A young girl flees her hometown and arrives in the Australian Alps, where new experiences help her learn the differences between sex and love.
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| Abbie Cornish | ... | Heidi | |
| Damian de Montemas | ... | Adam | |
| Olivia Pigeot | ... | Nicole | |
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Alex Babic | ... | Brian the barman |
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Elizabeth Muntar | ... | Ticket Vendor |
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Justin Martin | ... | Guy |
| Ben Tate | ... | Sean | |
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Joshua Phillips | ... | Josh |
| Sam Worthington | ... | Joe | |
| Nathaniel Dean | ... | Stuart | |
| Paul Gleeson | ... | Roy | |
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Bruce Ross | ... | Staring Man |
| Lynette Curran | ... | Irene | |
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John Sheerin | ... | Pat |
| Anne-Louise Lambert | ... | Martha (as Anne Louise Lambert) | |
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Coming of age: Heidi, 15, runs away from home after her mom sees her kissing mom's boyfriend. She goes to a Snowy River resort where a vague job offer doesn't pan out. She manages to find a place to live and a job at a convenience store. She's between childhood -- nursery rimes and a scrapbook of glittery unicorns - and adulthood - working, sorting out emotions and sexuality, and dealing with social slights and false charges of bad behavior. She's attractive and her loneliness makes her vulnerable. She sleeps with Joe, the son of local ranchers, and she awakens in him feelings he can't express. Is there any way she can put off adulthood and be a kid awhile longer? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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coming of age | pubic hair | sexual ambiguity | male full frontal nudity | male pubic hair |Taglines:
Love can turn you upside down.Parents Guide:
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Country:
AustraliaLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
16 September 2004 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
Salto Mortal See more »Edit
Box Office
Opening Weekend:
AUD 70,769 (Australia), 12 September 2004, Limited ReleaseOpening Weekend USA:
$21,566, 23 April 2006, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$92,214, 29 June 2006Company Credits
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Red Carpet Productions, Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), Fortissimo Films See more »
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Richard: [nods]
Joe: She's like that.
Richard: Like perfume?
Joe: No... see, when you leave you still feel her on your skin.
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Written by Decoder Ring
Performed by Decoder Ring and Lenka Kripac (as Lenka)
Produced by Decoder Ring
Control
Licensed courtesy Red Carpet Productions
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The coach that Heidi boards to take her to Jindabyne is shown to depart from the Belconnen bus interchange in North Canberra (there is a bit of artistic license at work here as the Belconnen interchange only deals with Canberra's internal bus service). See more »Goofs
When Joe pours hot water onto the icy windscreen of his car, no steam appears. See more »Quotes
Joe: You know when you were a kid, did your mum ever used to spray perfume in the air and sort of walk through it?Richard: [nods]
Joe: She's like that.
Richard: Like perfume?
Joe: No... see, when you leave you still feel her on your skin.
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SomersaultWritten by Decoder Ring
Performed by Decoder Ring and Lenka Kripac (as Lenka)
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I admit that I'm a film coward-domestic and personal interaction can put me on the edge and yesterday afternoon I was on the edge for the entire length of this movie. That is not to say that the film was in any way poorly made or grade B-it was just the opposite. Somersault was a brilliantly crafted, directed and acted film and it deserves a huge audience around the world. It is nothing a Hollywood film is: no physical violence [but much mental violence and disorder], no crime, no lame sappy ending, no laboratory special effects-in short a real film about real people living real lives.
The GenXers do it differently than my generation did but that is to be expected-I just found Cate Shortland's look into their lives a little edgy for someone further down the age track like me. I admired greatly the acting as well as the cinematography of the film; the direction was superb as Ms. Shortland spliced together the fragmentation of the lives of the principle characters. Those lives were highly disjointed but that is probably a generational comment because the people portrayed seemed less upset about their situations than I felt about them.
The film deserves all the accolades it is receiving-make every effort to see it.