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Broken Highway (1993)

Broken Highway (1993)

Drama

Broken Dreams, Broken Hearts

Release Date: 1993, June 2
Directors: Laurie McInnes
Countries: Australia
Production: Black Ray Films, Black Ray Films, Ronin Films, Ronin Films, Australian Film Commission, Australian Film Commission, Queensland Film Development Office, Queensland Film Development Office
Cast: Dennis Miller, Bill Hunter, David Field, Claudia Karvan, Kris McQuade, Norman Kaye, William McInnes, Aden Young, Peter Settle, Ashley Rycen, Lachlan McInnes

Overview:

In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is heaved out of its doldrums when a pair of mysterious strangers come visiting. In the beginning of the film, Angel is traveling with his friend Max on a ship to Honeyfield, a town on the coast of Australia. He is coming home to die. Instead, he dies on board the ship, willing his boots to Angel, and an unopened package to someone called "The Dead Man," in Honeyfield. Also on the ship is a man named Tatts, a far less pleasant personality. When Angel gets off to head into Honeyfield, Tatts decides to follow along unseen. The package, Angel was told, contains something its intended recipient has been looking for without knowing it. On finding the recipient, a mean-spirited old man who is more or less the boss and owner of the town, he learns that the package contains opium.

Keywords:

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