Is an Australian drama film directed by Alkinos Tsilimidos and released in 1994. Based on a play of the same name, written by Ray Mooney, the film details the early life of contract killer Christopher Dale Flannery and is set inside Melbourne's HM Prison Pentridge's maximum security H Division.[1] Filming was undertaken at HM Prison Geelong. Dale, a remandee, is awaiting a court hearing and yet to be sentenced, highlighting the horrific injustice of the repeated beatings he's subjected to. Gradually Dale becomes indifferent to the bashings and horrors of prison life and develops an alternative, subversive way to exist and express his rage. As Dale walks defiantly from the prison in the last scene to be tried, the failure of the correctional system to produce docile, disciplined bodies pulls its last punch. Even if the system has enframed Dale he has maintained his sanity and his voice.
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Cast
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David Field
Dale
Known for
Shantaram
Preacher
Bill Hunter
Berriman
Known for
Muriel's Wedding
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Alkinos Tsilimidos
Ray Mooney
Shane O'Mara
Robert Morgan
Best
Known for
Childhood's End
The OA
Toby Oliver
Phil Motherwell
Bryant
Also in
Mad Max
Stir
Cindy Clarkson
Jim Daly
Barrett
Known for
Red Hill
Nautilus
Billy Tisdall
Gilchrist
Also in
Mad Max
Steven Meier
Alkinos Tsilimidos Director · Ray Mooney Screenplay Shane O'Mara Composer
First release November 1, 1994 · Produced in Australia
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Australia
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Sweden · November 1, 1994
Stockholm International Film Festival
Australia · May 24, 1995
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No release date listed for United States.
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