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High Tide
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PG13,2hrs 0min
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1987
Synopsis: Gillian Armstrong directed this powerful and moving film containing a brilliant performance by Judy Davis. The story takes place in the small New South Wales seaside village of Eden. Davis is Lillie, who is renting a run-down trailer as she waits for her car to be repaired. One night, when Lillie is drunk and cannot walk from the toilet block back to her trailer, a teenage girl, Ally (Claudia Karvan) -- who lives with her free-spirited grandmother Bet (Jan Adele) in another trailer in the trailer ... Full Synopsis
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High Tide is a beautifully realized domestic drama about a woman's chance encounter with the daughter she'd abandoned years earlier. Director Gillian Armstrong, working with screenwriter Laura Jones (who would later collaborate with Jane Campion on the scripts for An Angel at My Table and The Portrait of a Lady), has created a wonderfully complicated central character in Lilli (Judy Davis). An acerbically ... Full Review
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Lilli
Mick, Fisherman/Artist
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