3 Movies Directed by Rod Hardy

Thirst

Thirst

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-09-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (774 Reviews)

Director:

Rod Hardy

Cast:

Writer:

John Pinkney (original screenplay)

Fullplot:

The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.

The Yearling

The Yearling

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-04-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (224 Reviews)

Director:

Rod Hardy

Cast:

Writer:

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (novel)

Joe Wiesenfeld (teleplay)

Fullplot:

In 1870s Florida, a rural family struggles to survive. A lonely twelve-year-old son, Jody (Wil Horneff), the lone surviving child, against his mother's better judgment eventually persuades his parents to allow him a pet fawn, which Jody grows to love deeply. Tragic conflict arises when the fawn begins eating the family's food crops.

December Boys

December Boys

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-09-20

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

Australia

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (9933 Reviews)

Director:

Rod Hardy

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Ronald Kinnoch (story)

Michael Noonan (novel)

Marc Rosenberg (screenplay)

Fullplot:

An adult nicknamed Misty is narrating a story about one summer in his life when he was an adolescent in the late 1960s. He was living in a Catholic orphanage in the Australian outback. His best mates were the "December boys" - Maps, Spark and Spit - the four of them so named because they were the boys in the orphanage born in the month of December. With a recent windfall, the orphanage decided to give each of the boys a group vacation for each of their birthdays, the December boys the first to go. Their vacation was to Lady Star Cove on the Australian coast, to stay at the home of Mrs. and Mrs. McAnsh - Bandy and "Skipper". Their relatively carefree Christmas vacation took a turn primarily from three events: learning the reason the McAnshes hosted the boys specifically at this time; Maps, the oldest in his mid-teens, exploring his sexuality with a girl named Lucy, who was also visiting Lady Star Cove for the summer; and Misty secretly learning that a young couple in the cove, Fearless and Teresa, were thinking about adopting one of them, the couple who were unable to conceive a child of their own. Beyond the dreams of especially the younger three to be adopted by a loving family, Fearless had the extra wow factor of being a stunt motorcyclist as his profession. Misty, the youngest, tried the hardest to be the one chosen, even initially keeping the fact of Fearless and Teresa thinking about adopting one of them from the other three. Misty concludes his story with the reason why he is telling it at this stage in his life.

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