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Director: Ray Lawrence
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Lawrence's adaptation of Peter Carey's novel in no way pants after American prototypes. Part surrealist comedy and part mid-life crisis drama, its madcap energy and anarchic intelligence put it in a class of its own. Harry Joy (Otto), rich advertising executive, is loved by everyone except his wife, who is having an affair with his partner and best friend. Harry only discovers this after a four-minute clinical death from a heart attack, when he begins to see his life in perspective: his marriage is in ruins, his son swaps drugs for sex from his daughter, all around him people are dying of cancer, and his wife has him committed to an asylum. Then into his life steps the young and beautiful Honey (Jones), and the sweet-toothed Harry falls in love as she beckons him into the bush and a back-to-nature idyll. Witty and profoundly enjoyable.Author: CB
User reviews of this film
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- Catharine Rambeau said...
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Posted on Sep 12 2010 04:37
Saw Bliss at Telluride in 1985 and disliked it so thoroughly that I walked out.
Then it came to Detroit, and as the movie critic for the Free Press I had to review it.
Which meant I had to watch all of it.
Wound up giving it a great review.
(I was right the second time.) - Report as inappropriate
Cast & crew
Director: Ray Lawrence
Producer: Anthony Buckley
Cast: Barry Otto, Lynette Curran, Helen Jones, Gia Carides, Miles Buchanan, Jeff Truman full cast
Duration: 112 mins
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