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Zak Hilditch (co-writer/director/co-producer)
Antony Webb (cinematographer/editor/co-producer)
U.S. Premiere, 2006 Slamdance Film Festival
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A cleverly timed black comedy with definate cult potential, this
is a brilliant no-budget debut...
- Brisbane International Film Festival
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| This 'no-budget' indie black comedy is a credit to its
new-talent creatives. Shot digitally in a crisp style and costing $700,
the film centres around a 20-something, hormone-charged Perth household.
Tom is the desperate-for-a-girlfriend supermarket manager; Kevin an
office administrator with a constant itchy right hand; and gay
arts-student Claire complements the crew. The film sets the agenda from
the outset with an intimate sex scene between Claire and her girlfriend.
Claire's girlfriend hurriedly departs the household leaving the clan in
need of a paying housemate. While shopping, Tom introduces himself to
Emma, a visiting Melbournian actress checking out the housing vancancies
on the community notice board. He invites her to be their housemate and
Emma proceeds to lure all three into her seductress' trap. Soon the
original three are pitched against each other, while manipulative Emma
purrs gleefully, toying with her three trapped mice. Conflicts escalate,
culminating in a near-fatal incident at Emma's birthday party. This is a
good observational piece dealing with typical share-house grievances and
the tensions that arise when sex-starved 20-somethings find themselves
in a house together. The films three protagonists negotiate boundries,
sexual and household politics, and their own moral code. By the end of
the film they are well on the road to discovering who they really are.
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