3 Movies Directed by Ray Lawrence

Bliss

Bliss

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-02-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(1047 Reviews)

Director:

Ray Lawrence

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Ray Lawrence (screenplay)

Peter Carey (screenplay)

Peter Carey (novel)

Fullplot:

An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbera.

Lantana

Lantana

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-03-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia, Germany

Runtime:

121 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (15988 Reviews)

Director:

Ray Lawrence

Genres:

DramaMystery

Cast:

Writer:

Andrew Bovell (play)

Andrew Bovell (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Trust. A dead body in bracken. A cop cheats on his unhappy wife who, in secret, sees a psychiatrist whose own marriage is corroded by grief: she thinks her husband is having an affair with a gay patient of hers. The cop's lover, Jane, is recently separated, and her neighbors - a couple with children - include a muscular unemployed man. Late one night, the doctor skids off a back road, finds a call box, and tries in vain to reach her husband. She sees headlights and flags down the driver. Later that night, Jane sees her neighbor park his truck and throw something into the lantana in a vacant lot. It's a woman's shoe. Unraveling the mystery lays bare five couples.

Jindabyne

Jindabyne

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-07-20

Languages:

English, Irish, Aboriginal

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

123 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (5643 Reviews)

Director:

Ray Lawrence

Cast:

Writer:

Raymond Carver (short story "So Much Water So Close to Home")

Beatrix Christian

Fullplot:

Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they continue fishing and report their gruesome find days later. Stewart's wife Claire is the last to find out. Deeply disturbed by her husband's action, her faith in her relationship with Stewart is shaken to the core. She wants to understand and tries to make things right. In her determination to help the victim's family Claire sets herself not only against her own family and friends but also those of the dead girl. Her marriage is taken to the brink and her peaceful life with Stewart and their young son hangs in the balance. The story of a murder and a marriage - a film about the things that haunt us.

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