| Description |
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.). |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 356 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 356.
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| System Details |
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1, enhanced for 16:9 televisions. |
| Cast |
Genevieve Lemon (Sweetie), Karen Colston (Kay), Tom Lycos (Louis), Dorothy Barry (Flo), Jon Darling (Gordon), Michael Lake (Bob). |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Sally Bongers ; editor, Veronika Haussler ; music, Martin Armiger ; art director, Peter Harris ; costume designer, Amanda Lovejoy. |
| Note |
Originally produced as an Australian motion picture in 1989. |
| Summary |
As Tolstoy asserted, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This unhappy family has never confronted its unhappiness: Sweetie, so called since childhood, the apple of her father Bob's eye and the bane of her mother Flo's smothered existence. Her sister Kay is shy, superstitious, and sexually repressed where Sweetie is loud, slovenly, and quite possibly mentally ill. The family has managed to lead relatively normal lives by denying their bizarre family reality. Sweetie has terrorized her family for years, but an unexpected tragedy is about to loosen her spoiled brat grip on their psyches. |
| Contents |
"Trees scare me" -- Question mark -- Baby alder -- "Big sister" -- Meditation class -- Appointment for sex -- Sweetie -- Interruption -- Day at the beach -- Attempted seduction -- Broken horses -- Dad -- Talented little girl -- Bob -- Tricks -- Left behind -- Road trip -- Reconciliation -- Going home -- Cleaning up -- "Not just the plant" -- Family business -- Tree house -- "Good girl" -- "Love me always..." -- Color bars. |
| Note |
Special features: Commentary with Jane Campion, Gerard Lee, and Sally Bongers [optional audio feature]; Making "Sweetie" [featurette with Karen Colston and Genevieve Lemon] (23 min.); Short films: "An Exercise in Discipline: Peel" (9 min.), "Passionless Moments" (12 min.), "A Girl's Own Story" (27 min.); "Jane Campion: The Film School Years" [featurette] (19 min.); Production gallery [slide show]; Trailer (2 min.); Booklet includes "Jane Campion's Experiment" by Dana Polan. |
| Language |
In English with optional subtitles in English. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Sisters -- Drama.
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Families -- Drama.
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Dysfunctional families -- Drama.
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Automobile travel -- Drama.
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Superstition -- Australia -- Drama.
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Sisters -- Australia -- Drama.
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Families -- Australia -- Drama.
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Australia -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction films.
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Feature films.
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| Subject |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Genre/Form |
Foreign films.
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Melodrama.
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| Added Author |
Campion, Jane, 1954-
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Lee, Gerard, 1951-
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Maynard, John, 1943-
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Lemon, Genevieve.
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Colston, Karen.
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Lycos, Tom.
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Barry, Dorothy.
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Darling, Jon.
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Lake, Michael.
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Janus Films.
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Arena Films (Firm)
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| ISBN |
1934121029 |
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9781934121023 |
| Standard No. |
715515020428 |
| Music No. |
CC1654D Criterion Collection |
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