Robyn Nevin

In the Company of Actors (2007)

Cast: Hugo Weaving Cate Blanchett Ian Darling Aden Young Robyn Nevin   

Tags: Theater 

Length: 75min

It's rare that audiences have the opportunity to watch actors perfect their roles in the sacred space of the rehearsal room, but in this documentary detailing the Sydney Theater Company's production of +Hedda Gabler at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in...

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Emerald City (1989)

Cast: Nicole Kidman John Hargreaves Nicholas Hammond Michael Jenkins Ruth Cracknell   

Tags: Showbiz Drama Drama Showbiz Comedy 

Length: 93min

Australian author David Williamson adapted Emerald City from his own stage play. The title may conjure up images of the Wonderful Land of Oz, but the plot is set in the Munchkin-free Australian film industry. John Hargreaves stars as a prosperous...

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Angel Baby (1995)

Cast: John Phillips Colin Friels Michael Rymer Deborra-Lee Furness John Lynch   

Tags: Romantic Drama Psychological Drama Drama Romance 

Length: 104min

In this unusual romantic drama from Australia, Harry (John Lynch) and Kate (Jacqueline McKenzie) are both patients at a psychiatric care facility. While in therapy, the two meet and fall in love, in spite of their troubled pasts. Despite the potential...

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Paperback Romance (1994)

Cast: Anthony LaPaglia Gia Carides Ben Lewin Rebecca Gibney Marshall Napier   

Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance 

Length: 90min

In this offbeat, romantic comedy, a young woman tries to conceal her paralyzed leg in order to get her man. Sophie is a young and creative writer. Her stories are quite sexual. One night, as she reads one of her erotic tales aloud she is overheard by...

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Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)

Cast: John Hargreaves Wendy Hughes John Seale Carl Schultz Nicholas Gledhill   

Tags: Drama Childhood Drama 

Length: 116min

Set in Australia in the 1930s, this drama stars Nicholas Gledhill as P.S., a six-year-old boy who lives with his Aunt Lila (Robyn Nevin) and Uncle George (Peter Whitford). P.S.'s mother died in childbirth, so her sister Lila took him in, and while...

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Resistance (1992)

Cast: Hugh Keays-Byrne Helen Jones Stephen Leeder Lorna Lesley Robyn Nevin   

Tags: Political Drama Drama 

Length: 112min

Filmed in the Australian outback, but set in an unnamed country, this stylish and decidedly liberal drama attempts to be the inspirational tale of workers and rural folk who band together to quash their oppressors: greedy corporate types and the...

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Goodbye Paradise (1982)

Cast: John Seale Carl Schultz Robyn Nevin   

Length: 120min

In a somewhat far-fetched premise (not uncommon to the genre), this action film has some Australians (including soldiers) joining up with Asian forces, all backed by American money, ready to take over Surfers Paradise, a resort and retirement area on...

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The More Things Change (1986)

Cast: Robyn Nevin Peter Carroll Lewis Fitz-Gerald Victoria Longley Judy Morris   

Length: 95min

In this Australian entry into the early 1980s sub-genre of films dealing with families rejecting contemporary society for a life of freedom and non-conformity (Mosquito Coast, Lost in America), an Australian family tries to leave the suburbs and start...

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The Coolangatta Gold (1984)

Cast: Bill Conti Colin Friels Igor Auzins Joss Mc William Josephine Smulders   

Tags: Drama Sports Drama 

Length: 116min

Director Igor Auzins and screenwriter Peter Schreck, best known for their work on the Australian film We of the Never Never, were reteamed on Coolangatta Gold. The story takes place on the Gold Coast of Queensland, where for many years a grueling...

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