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:
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16 September 2004 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
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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 Rob Lovett (as Lovett), Ian Clyne (as Clyne) and Gerry Humphrys (as Humphries)
Performed by The Loved Ones
Mushroom Music Publishing
Licensed courtesy of Universal Music Australia
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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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The Loved OneWritten by Rob Lovett (as Lovett), Ian Clyne (as Clyne) and Gerry Humphrys (as Humphries)
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I saw a screening of this in New York City in late March, and I loved it. I thought about this movie for many days afterward, and it is one of the best films I've seen all year. It is scheduled for an October release.
This was a beautiful, poetic film- one that touched me both on an artistic level and a deeply personal level. Although I am forty-five now, the movie took me on a vivid journey back to my own adolescence, and the truth that Ms. Shortland captured about "Heidi," and the relationship between "Heidi" and "Joe" was breathtakingly realistic.
Somewhere during my viewing, I realized I was watching one those rare works of art which so startlingly and accurately paint a piece of the human experience that is both reflective of its time and place and destined to transcend them. "Heidi's" red gloves become the self-protective coat of armor to an Aussie teen-aged a girl of the twenty-first century the way "Holden's" red hunting cap served the same purpose to the confused, distraught adolescent of 1940's New York City.
The acting is superb, and there is not a false note anywhere to be found in any of the elements of this film.