High Tide
A rock'n roll singer gets stranded in a small Australian town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a trailer park only to encounter, by accident, the teenage daughter she deserted following her husband's death. In HD.
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"This is one film I am always recommending to friends looking for something "different" to see. On paper it sounds like one of those 1940's "women's pictures" but in execution it is something really special and beautiful. Gillian Armstrong adds real texture and symbolic heft to the simple story--those speeding-camera shots of the water are wonderful!--and is aided by a sublime cast. Judy Davis gives what is, for my money, quite possibly the greatest performance ever captured on film. She has two scenes in particular--the initial confrontation with her ex-mother-..."
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Back-to-back consecutive Best Actress AFI (Australian Film Institute) Award for Judy Davis for this film as Davis had won the same category the previous year for Kangaroo (1986). At the time, this was Davis' third win for a Best Actress in a Lead Role AFI Award, as Davis had won first for Winter of Our Dreams (1981) and in that same year had also won the AFI Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Hoodwink (1981), making High Tide (1987) her fourth AFI Award for acting.
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A rock'n roll singer gets stranded in a small Australian town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a trailer park only to encounter, by accident, the teenage daughter she deserted following her husband's death. In HD.