Bibliograph

Sweetie, Janus Films ; Arena Film presents ; screenplay, Gerard Lee and Jane Campion ; producer, John Maynard ; director, Jane Campion

Type

Label

Sweetie, Janus Films ; Arena Film presents ; screenplay, Gerard Lee and Jane Campion ; producer, John Maynard ; director, Jane Campion

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Sweetie

Oclc number

70892158

Responsibility statement

Janus Films ; Arena Film presents ; screenplay, Gerard Lee and Jane Campion ; producer, John Maynard ; director, Jane Campion

Runtime

Series statement

Criterion collection, 356

Summary

As Tolstoy asserted, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This unhappy family has never confronted its unhappiness: Sweetie, so called since childhood, the apple of her father Bob's eye and the bane of her mother Flo's smothered existence. Her sister Kay is shy, superstitious, and sexually repressed where Sweetie is loud, slovenly, and quite possibly mentally ill. The family has managed to lead relatively normal lives by denying their bizarre family reality. Sweetie has terrorized her family for years, but an unexpected tragedy is about to loosen her spoiled brat grip on their psyches

Table Of Contents

"Trees scare me" -- Question mark -- Baby alder -- "Big sister" -- Meditation class -- Appointment for sex -- Sweetie -- Interruption -- Day at the beach -- Attempted seduction -- Broken horses -- Dad -- Talented little girl -- Bob -- Tricks -- Left behind -- Road trip -- Reconciliation -- Going home -- Cleaning up -- "Not just the plant" -- Family business -- Tree house -- "Good girl" -- "Love me always ..." -- Color bars

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Sweety

Classification

Contributor