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Looking for Grace

  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
386
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Looking for Grace (2015)
When rebellious 16-year-old Grace (rising star Odessa Young) takes off on her own, her exasperated parents (Radha Mitchell and Richard Roxburgh) enlist the help of a close-to-retirement detective, and begin the long drive from Perth to the West Australian Wheatbelt to try to find her. Looking for Grace is about how we make sense of the mess of our lives and what it all means.  It is a wry drama about lies, secrets, small and large griefs and, of course, love.
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After a teenage girl named Grace goes missing, her parents along with the help of an investigator seek to find her, while also juggling their own secrets and stories between them.After a teenage girl named Grace goes missing, her parents along with the help of an investigator seek to find her, while also juggling their own secrets and stories between them.After a teenage girl named Grace goes missing, her parents along with the help of an investigator seek to find her, while also juggling their own secrets and stories between them.

  • Director
    • Sue Brooks
  • Writer
    • Sue Brooks
  • Stars
    • Radha Mitchell
    • Richard Roxburgh
    • Odessa Young
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.2/10
    386
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Sue Brooks
    • Writer
      • Sue Brooks
    • Stars
      • Radha Mitchell
      • Richard Roxburgh
      • Odessa Young
    • 10User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 11 nominations

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    Sue Brooks and Odessa Young at an event for Looking for Grace (2015)
    Odessa Young at an event for Looking for Grace (2015)
    Sue Brooks at an event for Looking for Grace (2015)
    Sue Brooks, Alison Tilson, Lizzette Atkins, and Odessa Young at an event for Looking for Grace (2015)
    Radha Mitchell at an event for Looking for Grace (2015)
    Odessa Young at an event for Looking for Grace (2015)
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    Sue Brooks, Radha Mitchell, and Odessa Young at an event for Looking for Grace (2015)
    Looking for Grace (2015)
    Looking for Grace (2015)
    Radha Mitchell and Richard Roxburgh in Looking for Grace (2015)
    Radha Mitchell, Richard Roxburgh, and Odessa Young in Looking for Grace (2015)

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    Radha Mitchell
    Radha Mitchell
    • Denise
    Richard Roxburgh
    Richard Roxburgh
    • Dan
    Odessa Young
    Odessa Young
    • Grace
    Kenya Pearson
    Kenya Pearson
    • Sappho
    Harry Richardson
    Harry Richardson
    • Jamie
    Andrea Gibbs
    • Beth
    Vito de Francesco
    Vito de Francesco
    • Ted
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    Gemma Willing
    Gemma Willing
    • Anne
    Terry Norris
    Terry Norris
    • Norris
    Myles Pollard
    Myles Pollard
    • Bruce
    River Lockwood
    • Phillip
    Andy King
    • Gary
    Julia Blake
    Julia Blake
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    Peter Rowsthorn
    • Steve
    Geoff Miethe
    • Marty
    Kelton Pell
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      • Sue Brooks
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      • Sue Brooks
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    • Trivia
      The scene set in an outback bar in the wheat fields of WA contains two extras at the bar. The extras were not in fact Australian, but two British holiday makers passing by during filming.
    • Goofs
      At the end of the movie they are heading home, but they are heading west into the sunset, with the pipeline still on the right hand side, which is the same direction they were heading out towards Ceduna when they were trying to find Grace.
    • Connections
      Featured in Looking for Grace: Behind the Scenes (2016)
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    7/10
    Minor reservations aside, this is an engaging tale told in the finest Aussie tradition.
    One of the classic tropes of Australian film is the random and ever-present potential for destruction that is represented cinematically by the vastness and untamed beauty of our unique landscapes. It is sometimes shown, for example, as mystical power (eg: Picnic at Hanging Rock), dystopian violence (The Rover), terror (Wolf Creek), images of deadly bushfires or road-kill scattered over lonely country roads. Looking for Grace builds on this tradition and explores random destruction in a novel way by taking a simple plot line and splitting into separate narratives that converge with deadly force.

    Five stories unfold in parallel as sign-posted chapters, each telling the same story but from a different viewpoint. The narrative arc turns on rebellious 16 year-old Grace who empties her father's safe and hops on a coach for a heavy metal concert a few days from home. While chance plays a part, meeting a boy, losing her virginity, and being robbed is a predictable tale for many run-aways. What is not predictable is how the four other stories overlap hers. The unfaithful father seems more concerned about the cash than his daughter and the over-controlling mother is pathetically funny keeping up appearances in the midst of a missing person investigation. The doddery old private detective hired to find Grace (and the money) worries about the whiteness of his false teeth and says the most obvious things in funny ways. And there is the seemingly disconnected story about the road-train driver who bookends the film and ties five random tales into a single Aussie yarn.

    The cinematography is superb and it carries the film. From lovingly long panoramic landscapes, to backlit gum trees, golden sunrises, the sharp detail of a furtive glance in shallow depth of field, the camera-work is beautifully crafted and quintessentially Australian. Acting is excellent although based more on good casting than fine performance – there is little room for character development in a film cut five ways. It is also deliberately slow in parts; rather than looking like parents in crisis we see dad's clumsy preoccupation with his own guilt, mum's growing anxiety about her marriage and looking good in gym wear, and Grace just takes her time like any teenager. Minor reservations aside, this is an engaging tale told in the finest Aussie tradition.
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    • Release date
      • January 26, 2016 (Australia)
    • Country of origin
      • Australia
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      • Distributor
      • Unicorn Films (Australia)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Buscant la Grace
    • Filming locations
      • Western Australia, Australia
    • Production companies
      • Gecko Films Pty. Ltd.
      • Unicorn Films
      • Taylor Media
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $147,164
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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