TY  - ADVS
AU  - Armstrong,Kerry
AU  - Blake,Rachael
AU  - Bovell,Andrew
AU  - Buddee,Kim
AU  - Chapman,Jan
AU  - Colosimo,Vince
AU  - Dykstra,Russell
AU  - Farinacci,Daniella
AU  - Hershey,Barbara
AU  - Kelly,Paul
AU  - LaPaglia,Anthony
AU  - Lawrence,Ray
AU  - Phelps,Peter
AU  - Purcell,Leah
AU  - Robbins,Glenn
AU  - Rush,Geoffrey
AU  - Sodersten,Karl
AU  - Walker,Mandy
AU  - Wilson,Margot
AU  - Bovell,Andrew
ED  - Australian Film Finance Corporation.
ED  - Jan Chapman Films Pty Ltd.
ED  - Lions Gate Home Entertainment.
ED  - MBP Medien AG (Firm)
ED  - Trimark Home Video (Firm)
TI  - Lantana
SN  - 1588175405
PY  - 2002///
CY  - [Sydney, N.S.W.], Santa Monica, CA
PB  - Australian Film Finance Corp., Distributed by Trimark Home Video
KW  - Bovell, Andrew
KW  - Adultery
KW  - Drama
KW  - Criminal investigation
KW  - Gay men
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Motion pictures, Australian
KW  - Murder
KW  - Police
KW  - Video recordings
KW  - Sydney (N.S.W.)
KW  - Detective and mystery films
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Feature films
KW  - Film adaptations
KW  - Police films
KW  - Thrillers (Motion pictures)
KW  - Video recordings for the hearing impaired
N1  - Based on Andrew Bovell's stage play "Speaking in Tongues."; Special features: Trailer (2 min.); The nature of Lantana [featurette] (25 min.); Lantana bush -- Sex -- Eleanor -- Infidelity -- Dignity -- Collision -- Partner -- Judging -- Betrayal -- Bad day -- Good stuff -- Dancing -- Emotional state -- Words -- Numb -- Dilemma -- Focused -- Grief -- Interrogation -- Comfort -- Truth -- Breakdown -- Change -- End credits; Director of photography, Mandy Walker ; camera, David Williamson ; production designer, Kim Buddee ; costume designer, Margot Wilson ; editor, Karl Sodersten ; music, Paul Kelly with Shane O'Mara, Steve Hadley, Bruce Haymes, Peter Luscome; Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush, Barbara Hershey, Kerry Armstrong, Rachael Blake, Vince Colosimo, Russell Dykstra, Daniela Farinacci, Peter Phelps, Leah Purcell, Glenn Robbins; Originally produced as an Australian motion picture in 2001; MPAA rating: Rated R for language and sexuality
N2  - Lantana: a noxious and troublesome weed with dense and spiky undergrowth, sometimes cultivated for its colorful, aromatic flowers (film website). Like the plant, this film is a thicket: lovely and sweet smelling on its surface, dense and thorny beneath. In Lantana, a quartet of married couples from different strata of urban Australian life--wealthy Valerie and John, the middle-class Zats, working-class Jane and her estranged husband Pete, and struggling, just barely working-class Nik and Paula--are connected by psychiatrist Valerie, whose disappearance is the event around which these couples lives begin to revolve. The delicately layered storyline reminds viewers of three essential truths about human existence: No one is exactly what he or she seems; actions generate ripples that reach far beyond the actions themselves; and life does go on, no matter what, but it is never the same as before. Before what? Before everything
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