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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 21, 2002
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anthony LaPaglia & Geoffrey Rush | |
Performer: | Daniela Farinacci, Kerry Armstrong, Vince Colosmo, Russell Dykstra, Peter Phelps & Barbara Hershey | |
Directed by | Ray Lawrence | |
Screenwriting by | Andrew Bovell | |
Composition by | Paul Kelly | |
Director of Photography: | Mandy Walker |
Entertainment Reviews:
Lantana is so rich in secondary characters and performances it's hard to mention them all. But you will certainly appreciate them.
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Denver Post
...LANTANA manages to hold complexity and coherence in balance....An astonishingly well acted film...
New York Times
Rating: 2/5 --
It's not entirely far-fetched to see a link between the clunky expositions of character, plot and theme from an everyday soap, to those in Lantana.
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Patrick Nabarro
...A hothouse thriller of tangled sexuality....The acting is top-notch, and LaPaglia, who makes the cop's torment palpable, gives the performance of his career...
Rolling Stone
The emotional experience of "Lantana" is heightened by its marvelous ensemble cast, all of whom etch a character in relatively brief screen time.
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Seattle Times
The sort of movie that highbrow critics love to overrate...It's Married With Children for serious-minded folks without a sense of humor.
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Boulder Weekly
...The film is graced with forceful performances from a terrific ensemble...
Movieline's Hollywood Life
Product Description:
Ray Lawrence's LANTANA is an intelligent, well-written, well-acted film that is much more than just another cop thriller--it's more like YOU CAN COUNT ON ME with its realistic, complex relationships and believable characters. The film opens with a slow pan over a dead body, eerily reminiscent of BLUE VELVET. Anthony LaPaglia stars as Leon, a Sydney police detective who is cheating on his wife, Sonja (Kerry Armstrong), with a married woman from their dance class (Rachael Blake), even though he still loves his wife. There's something missing from his life, but he's not sure what. His relationship with his son is strained, and even his partner, Claudia (Leah Purcell), knows something is wrong. But as his affair heats up and a murder mystery that seems to involve all of the people in his life begins to consume his attentions, he is forced to reexamine his future both as a family man and a cop.
LANTANA won seven Australian Film Institute Awards, including best picture, best director for Lawrence, best actor for LaPaglia, best actress for Armstrong, best supporting awards for both Blake and Colosimo, and best adapted screenplay by Andrew Bovell, who based the script on his play SPEAKING IN TONGUES. As the murder investigation gets more complicated and the tangled web leads to even more lying, cheating, and deception, the acting intensifies, and the sharp dialogue allows the characters to blossom as beautifully as the lantana bush referred to in the title.
LANTANA won seven Australian Film Institute Awards, including best picture, best director for Lawrence, best actor for LaPaglia, best actress for Armstrong, best supporting awards for both Blake and Colosimo, and best adapted screenplay by Andrew Bovell, who based the script on his play SPEAKING IN TONGUES. As the murder investigation gets more complicated and the tangled web leads to even more lying, cheating, and deception, the acting intensifies, and the sharp dialogue allows the characters to blossom as beautifully as the lantana bush referred to in the title.
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