Jodie Rimmer Movies

In My Father's Den (2005), a universally acclaimed New Zealand feature, swept over 15 international honors and virtually owned the 2005 New Zealand Film Awards. This intelligently crafted, penetrating drama travels in the footsteps of such masterpieces as The Myth of Fingerprints, In the Bedroom, and The Son's Room by detailing an indigenous, scarred family's attempt to heal from age-old wounds. The haunting story begins with war journalist Paul (Matthew MacFadyen), who returns to his childhood home to bury his father. Although few words are spoken, the pain and resentment of past traumas continue to sear and burn in Paul's mind, and become rapidly evident via Paul's struggles to interact normally with his brother (Colin Moy) and eerily laconic sister-in-law (the celebrated Miranda Otto). Upon moving into a local cottage, Paul feels somewhat validated and encouraged when he inadvertently (and innocently) befriends a teenager, Celia (Emily Barclay), an intelligent girl with a love of books who starts to borrow volumes from Paul's personal library; they share a distaste for the community and its people, and a difficulty with social adjustment. But when Celia goes missing, and all fingers in the narrow-minded, gossip-ridden small town point in Paul's direction, the bough starts to break for the young man. In an effort to clear the accusations, Paul starts an informal investigation, from which the unspoken secrets of his family's past and the mystery of Celia's absence will ultimately dovetail into a tragic discovery. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

A pair of sheltered Christchurch suburbanites longing for adventure get more than they bargained for after picking up an American hitchhiker in this New Zealand thriller starring Heavenly Creatures' Melanie Lynskey. Alice and her best friend, Craig, live for carefree days spent roaming the rural roads and picking up hitchhikers, but when they pick up Texan wanderer Seth, it doesn't take the pair long to realize that adventure has finally come knocking. With a gang of skinheads, a truck full of hippies, and an angry Maori on a motorcycle in hot pursuit, this is one road trip that Alice and Craig may never return from. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

In this comedy from New Zealand, Jodie Rimmer plays a young prostitute, who hasn't been on the job long enough to have become embittered with the world. However, she sure doesn't love her job, and when she gets wind of a major drug deal her pimp is plotting, she hatches a scheme to swipe the loot, which will give her and her fellow floozies enough of a financial cushion to quit the business once and for all. Jodie Rimmer shines here in a charming comic performance. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

In part one of Xena: Warrior Princess' third-season finale, Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) try to prevent Gabby's friend Seraphim (Jodie Rimmer) from sacrificing her life to revive a so-called goddess. Even worse: that "goddess" is none other than Gabrielle's evil daughter, Hope, killed by Xena in an earlier episode. All this intrigue has been cooked up by two other enemies from Xena's past: Ares (Kevin Smith) and Callisto (Hudson Leick). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

This Australian made-for-television movie tells the story of a girl and her fascination with a wild horse. Beth Buchanan stars as Anna Peterson, an Australian girl whose family relocates to New Zealand after the death of her father. She desperately wants a horse of her own, and her dreams become reality when she finds a wild stallion -- which is being hunted by a local neighbor -- that roams the countryside near her family's property. ~ Bernadette McCallion, Rovi