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Film Details - Latent Image Productions , 1993
Producers:
Rebel Penfold-Russell (executive producer).
Stuart Quin and Andrena Finlay (producers).
Production Companies:
Latent Image Productions.
J&M Entertainment (presents)
Finance Organisations:
Australian Film Finance Corporation.
Director of Photography:
Geoff Burton.
Editors:
Brian Kavanagh, Jill Savitt, and Frans Vandenburg.
Production Designers:
Brian Thomson.
Music:
Guy Gross.
Cast:
Including Phil Collins (Roland Copping), Hugo Weaving (Jonathan Wheats), Josephine Byrnes (Beth Wheats), Mitchell McMahon (Young Roland Copping), Andrew McMahon (Young Matthew), Rebel Penfold-Russell (Mother), Peter Mochrie (Michael Allen), Helen O'Connor (Margaret), Colleen Clifford (Mrs Waterson), Vincent Ball (Judge), Gandhi MacIntyre (Cartel Valuer), Christina Ormani (Telephone Girl), Nicholas Hammond (Detective Simms), Kee Chan (Detective Alan), Ian Cockburn (Matthew), Al Clark (Barry Gribble), and Martin Cooper (Lawyer).
Release Dates:
Released in Australia on 21 July 1994.
Released in the UK, Germany, Austria, Canada, and the US in 1993.
Location:
- Set and filmed in Sydney, New South Wales.
Post Production:
Spectrum Films International.
Awards:
- Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival, Best Film (nominated), 1993.
- Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, Golden Raven (won), 1994.
- Cannes Film Festival, Palme d'Or (nominated), 1993.
- AFI Awards, Best Achievement in Costume Design (nominated), 1993.
