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Death in Brunswick (1990)

Director: John Ruane

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Drinking heavily, stuck as the cook for a trendy rock club, and nagged by his visiting mother, Sam Neill desperately hopes that a romance with Sophie (Carides), a Greek-Cypriot barmaid, will alter his luck. Instead, the death of his drug-dealing Turkish washer-up embroils him in a black comic nightmare involving an inconvenient body, a sadistic bouncer, and Sophie's club-owner fiancé. This being a comedy, though, Neill eventually 'sees the light' and resolves to change his life. A likeably offbeat and often surprisingly dark comedy thriller, set amid a seldom acknowledged working class ethnic community.

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Cast & crew

Director: John Ruane

Producer: Timothy White

Cast: Zoe Carides, Sam Neill, John Clarke, Yvonne Lawley, Nico Lathouris, Nicholas Papademetriou full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 109 mins


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