Biography: John Duigan |
Director John Duigan first attracted attention with such low-budget films as The Trespassers (1976) and Mouth to Mouth (1978), which he also wrote and directed. These films were centered in Duigan's adopted homeland of Australia, but their theme of... more
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Cast: Om Puri
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy Police Comedy
Length: 93min
British television comic Steve Coogan made his first bid for a big-screen career in this comedy, in which he plays Simon Garden, a singularly inept parole officer who has not had terribly good luck with his clients -- after many years on the job, only...
Cast: Charlize Theron
Tags: War Romance Drama Romance Period Film Romantic Drama
Length: 133min
Australian filmmaker John Duigan directs the omantic war drama Head in the Clouds. Charlize Theron stars as ambitious photographer Gilda Bessé, who lives in France during the 1930s. She shares her stylish luxury apartment in Paris with Cambridge...
Cast: Jeanne Tripplehorn
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 93min
A woman looking for a relaxing weekend instead finds her safety at stake in this psychological thriller. Chloe (Jessica Alba) is a famous model who is feeling stressed after a working trip to the U.S. -- where she'd been dogged by a persistent...
Cast: Nicole Kidman David Warner
Tags: Showbiz Comedy Romance Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 105min
This light romantic comedy follows the amorous backstage shenanigans of the cast and crew as they prepare to stage "The Hit Man," noted playwright Felix Webb's latest play. The trouble begins when director Humphrey Beal hires Felix's extramarital...
The Journey of August King (1995)
Cast: John Duigan Sam Waterston Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein
Tags: Period Film Drama Rural Drama
Length: 90min
This drama chronicles the moral fortitude and courage of a simple North Carolina farmer in 1815. The trouble begins when the widowed farmer August King takes his wagon to a nearby town to get supplies and make the final payment on his land. He arrives...
Cast: Elisabeth Shue
Tags: Comedy Drama Medical Drama Family Drama
Length: 89min
Elisabeth Shue stars in this drama as Molly McKay, a mentally challenged woman who has suffered from autism since childhood. Institutionalized since the age of three, Molly is released at age 28 into the custody of her brother Buck (Aaron Eckhart),...
Cast: Hugh Grant Sam Neill
Tags: Erotic Drama Comedy of Manners Comedy Drama
Length: 94min
Sex, religion, and morality are the key ingredients in this Australian comedy set in the 1930s. Rev. Anthony Campion (Hugh Grant) is a liberal, forward-thinking Anglican priest who is sent on an unusual assignment. Norman Lindsay (Sam Neill) is a...
Tags: Drama Childhood Drama Odd Couple Film
Length: 120min
A young girl finds friendship on the wrong side of the career tracks in this drama. Camelot Gardens is a "gated community" where wealthy people can purchase luxurious (if sterile) homes and a security force ensures that riffraff will be kept away from...
Cast: Michael York Naomi Watts Rachel Ward
Tags: Romance Melodrama Erotic Drama Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 98min
Director John Duigan brings Jean Rhys' difficult 1966 best-selling novel to the screen. It's a story meant to be a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's novel -Jane Eyre, surmising what drove the first Mrs. Rochester mad in that novel. In Jamaica in the...
Tags: Comedy Drama Romantic Drama Romance Film a Clef Coming-of-Age
Length: 100min
Australian filmmaker John Duigan followed up his captivating The Year My Voice Broke with Flirting. Noah Taylor repeats his "Danny" characterization from the earlier film, while Thandie Newton plays a Ugandan exchange student who attends an Australian...
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