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52 Tuesdays

  • 20132013
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  • 1h 54m
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6.3/10
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Tilda Cobham-Hervey in 52 Tuesdays (2013)
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16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.
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  • Director
    • Sophie Hyde
  • Writers
    • Matthew Cormack(screenplay)
    • Sophie Hyde(story)
  • Stars
    • Tilda Cobham-Hervey
    • Sam Althuizen
    • Imogen Archer
Top credits
  • Director
    • Sophie Hyde
  • Writers
    • Matthew Cormack(screenplay)
    • Sophie Hyde(story)
  • Stars
    • Tilda Cobham-Hervey
    • Sam Althuizen
    • Imogen Archer
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    • 10User reviews
    • 49Critic reviews
    • 71Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 11 wins & 20 nominations

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    Tilda Cobham-Hervey
    Tilda Cobham-Hervey
    • Billie
    Sam Althuizen
    • Josh
    Imogen Archer
    • Jasmine
    Del Herbert-Jane
    • James
    Beau Travis Williams
    • Tom
    Mario Späte
    • Harry
    Greg Marsh
    • Psychiatrist
    Audrey Mason-Hyde
    • Frida
    Danica Moors
    • Lisa
    Sam Harding
    • Peepshow Dancer
    Daisy Brown
    • Woman in Tom's Bed
    Clare Matthews
    • Shop Assistant
    Susan Hyde
    • School Principal Susan Darcy
    Susie Skinner
    • Jasmin's Mother
    Astrid Pill
    • Josh's Mother
    Chris Drummond
    • Josh's Father
    Simon Butters
    • Doctor
    Alicia Hyde
    Alicia Hyde
    • Bartender
    • Director
      • Sophie Hyde
    • Writers
      • Matthew Cormack(screenplay) (story)
      • Sophie Hyde(story)
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    • Trivia
      Filmed over 52 consecutive Tuesdays with the non-profesional cast being given their scripts one week at a time.
    • Quotes

      James: A year is a long time especially at your age.

    • Connections
      Featured in Behind the Scenes Featurette (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      1000 Yrs
      Written/Composed by T. Mortimer, S. Hartshorne, I. Dalrymple

      Performed by Subtract S

      Recorded by Matthew Hills

      Hillside Recordings and Rehearsals

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    4/10
    Good performances, abhorrent characters, disjointed narrative
    Billie (Tilda Cobham-Hervey) is a sixteen-year-old school student. Her mother (Del Herbert-Jane) announces plans to undergo gender transition. More significantly, she forces Billie out of the house and Billie must live solely with her father. Her contact with her mother is restricted to Tuesdays after school. This upsets Billie, who decides to keep a video diary.

    52 TUESDAYS is less about gender transition and more about neglecting a child. Whatever turmoil the mother faces with gender change should be secondary to her responsibility as a parent. But her daughter's not as important to her and she unfairly forces her out of her own home, while allowing the older brother to stay. Billie, unsupervised, experiments sexually with two older students, videotaping the explicit experiences.

    Apart from the fine performances from the actors, all of them first-timers, there's not a lot to like in this rather bleak Australian film. The characters are obnoxious, they're the type of people I go to great lengths to avoid. Billie has no respect for others, the way she speaks to her father and opens her mother's mail. And her irresponsible mother clearly has no respect for Billie. The story has no direction, just one Tuesday after the next, the date presented as a title card over news footage of world events. Clever, but this constant interruption breaks the narrative flow and makes the film disjointed.

    Sophie Hyde is the director. She produced the highly-amusing documentary SHUT UP LITTLE MAN! and it's a shame she can't bring some humour to this film, her first drama feature.

    Films centred on gender transition are important and should be made. It's a very real issue affecting a lot of people. In 1999 we had Kimberly Peirce's excellent BOYS DON'T CRY, featuring a standout performance from Hilary Swank.

    But 52 TUESDAYS, sadly in the tradition of so many other Australian films, is depressing, plodding, vulgar and aimless.
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    • Apr 17, 2014

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    • Release date
      • May 1, 2014 (Australia)
    • Country of origin
      • Australia
    • Official sites
      • Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund - 52 Tuesdays (Australia)
      • Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund - My 52 Tuesdays (Australia)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Fifty-two Tuesdays
    • Filming locations
      • Richmond, South Australia, Australia
    • Production company
      • Closer Productions
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $125,164
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 54 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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