A man's life begins to unravel when his mistress brings him a bag of cash.
Director:
Nash Edgerton
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| David Roberts | ... | Raymond Yale | |
| Claire van der Boom | ... | Carla Smith | |
| Peter Phelps | ... | Jake | |
| Bill Hunter | ... | Gil Hubbard | |
| Kieran Darcy-Smith | ... | Barney | |
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Stephen Weston | ... | Charlie |
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Lisa Bailey | ... | Wendy |
| Lucy Bell | ... | Martha Yale | |
| Anthony Hayes | ... | Greg 'Smithy' Smith | |
| Damon Herriman | ... | Eddie | |
| Brendan Donoghue | ... | Leonard Long | |
| Luke Doolan | ... | Smithy's Mate | |
| Greg Hatton | ... | Smithy's Mate | |
| Joel Edgerton | ... | Billy | |
| Hanna Mangan Lawrence | ... | Lily (as Hannah Mangan-Lawrence) | |
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Lovers Ray and Carla plan to burn down her house at Christmas, to run off with her husband's drug money. Ray has a side scheme going too, taking kickbacks on the love hotel project whose construction he's managing. The suburban Aussie marrieds live across a river from each other, the much older, domesticated Ray in an upper middle-class neighborhood, Carla on the wrong side of the water. The cheaters will lure their families to the same Christmas picnic celebration, to provide alibis while still being able to sneak off and chat about the arson. Carla's tow-truck owner hubby, Smithy, is a fearsome tough to cross, so will the philanderers' holiday gifts come through, or explode in their lying faces? Written by David Stevens
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Country:
AustraliaLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
31 July 2008 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$17,092, 11 April 2010, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$47,174, 8 November 2013Company Credits
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Traditional tune, lyrics by Thomas Oliphant (uncredited)
Performed by The Woronora River Public School
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Nash Edgerton's first feature film. See more »Connections
Referenced in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Billy Eichner - Julie Klausner/Joel Edgerton/Vintage Trouble/Brad Wilk (2015) See more »Soundtracks
Deck The HallsTraditional tune, lyrics by Thomas Oliphant (uncredited)
Performed by The Woronora River Public School
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People rip this movie for not having a "credible plot" -- I think it's a ridiculous complaint, when that is exactly the point of the movie: it gets so tangled up, things go so over-the-top terribly wrong, that it becomes a black comedy. It's an intensively cruel, sadistic play on director/writer's N. Edgerton's part, who had shown his morbid and absurd sense of humor prior with the ingenious short feature "Spider", and it's at the heart of this movie.
The lead character of the movie, Raymond Yale descends into noir hell: every step he takes is a misstep, and every misstep leads him into bigger and bigger mess. The Square is intense, absurd, suspenseful, and outrageously fun.