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Peaches (2005)

Peaches (2005)
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An 18-year-old orphan teetering on the verge of womanhood attempts to unlock the secrets of her shrouded family past by setting out into the Australian countryside with little more than her mother's diary and a mysterious older lover to guide her in an intimate drama directed by Craig Monahan and starring Hugo Weaving and Emma Lung. Orphaned as a young child by a horrific car accident and locked into a forbidden love affair with the one-time trade unionist who now works as a factory manager at the peach-canning factory where she currently works, Steph (Lung) is a typical teenage girl who longs for a better life. With an unknown future on the horizon and a painful past slowly shrinking away in her rearview mirror, Steph attempts to find out everything she ever wanted to know about the family she once lost while never losing hope that she will one day find success on her own terms. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Director(s):
Craig Monahan
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Synopsis of Peaches

An 18-year-old orphan teetering on the verge of womanhood attempts to unlock the secrets of her shrouded family past by setting out into the Australian countryside with little more than her mother's diary and a mysterious older lover to guide her in an intimate drama directed by Craig Monahan and starring Hugo Weaving and Emma Lung. Orphaned as a young child by a horrific car accident and locked into a forbidden love affair with the one-time trade unionist who now works as a factory manager at the peach-canning factory where she currently works, Steph (Lung) is a typical teenage girl who longs for a better life. With an unknown future on the horizon and a painful past slowly shrinking away in her rearview mirror, Steph attempts to find out everything she ever wanted to know about the family she once lost while never losing hope that she will one day find success on her own terms. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
108 mins

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Director(s):
Craig Monahan
Writer(s):
Sue Smith
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James V.

Having just watched a better Australian film ("Oyster Farmer") with a similar sense of exotic workplace/interesting characters, PEACHES can't help but pale in comparison. Yet, this beautifully photographed & acted movie has a lot to recommend it--Hugo Weaving, for a start. What a lovely, sexy, odd & interesting actor this fellow is--even in drag ("Priscilla") or masked ("V for Vendetta")! Weaving and the rest of the cast make this memory piece about the relationships between laborers in an Australian peach-canning factory work surprisingly well. The movie's a bit long for what it has to say but director Craig Monahan & writer Sue Smith still manage to bring you home. The auto accident that begins the film means little more initially than the usual bang/crash, but as the movie curves around between past and present, bringing us finally to the crash again, the emotions it now carries are near-staggering. Despite telling too much and lingering too long, "Peaches" rewards your time spent.

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