Complete credited cast: | |||
Harrison Gilbertson | ... | Charlie Boyd | |
Emmanuelle Béart | ... | Maggie | |
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Anna Ryan | ... | Little Girl |
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Reuben Nash | ... | Scruffy Boy |
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Hugh Parker | ... | Tom Boyd |
Rachael Blake | ... | Kate Boyd | |
Malcolm Kennard | ... | Michael (as Mal Kennard) | |
Robyn Moore | ... | Fiona Pearce | |
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Monette Lee | ... | Funeral Director |
John Reynolds | ... | Client X | |
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Socratis Otto | ... | Leon |
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Noah Fontaine | ... | Noah |
Leah Purcell | ... | Audrey | |
Renaud Jadin | ... | Client 'Doggy Bonnie' | |
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Margie Brown-Ash | ... | Alice (as Margi Brown Ash) |
It's a long hot summer for Charlie Boyd. He's sixteen, his hormones are raging and he's just found out his mother is having an affair with his father's best friend. One thing takes his mind off his problems, the mysterious woman down the street who has visitors day and night, and has just advertised for a gardener. But she is forgotten when a tragic family event tumbles Charlie into a world of pain, a pain so intense Charlie thinks no-one can help him. He's wrong. Someone can. Maggie, the beautiful French stranger. She's a professional, and she specialises in pain. Giving it, exploring it, sharing it, all for money. So Charlie falls in love, and despite herself so does she, drawn to this troubled boy who takes all the pain she can give and uses it to heal himself. And as Charlie heals, he turns that healing back onto her, his Mistress. Written by Producer
This is presumably intended to be a 'significant' and 'artistic' film full of deep meanings on life, love and growing up. Its only claim to any of these is that the director made full use of longeurs where characters move very, very s l o w l y which served only to prolong an already dire experience.
None of the players appear to have acted in anything before, wooden would be too kind a description. The leading boy is an unlikeable kid who shows how he is 'suffering' by writing graffiti on his widowed mother's garage. His sexy new neighbour just happens to gag and whip men in her spare time (as you do in the suburbs) and after that I lost interest.
So will you.
Any resemblance to real life experiences of adolescence is purely absent.