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Sweetie

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, Dorothy Barry, Jon Darling, Michael Lake.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2006.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

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.

Notes

Originally produced as an Australian motion picture in 1989.

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.

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.

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