The Pact (2003 film)

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The Pact
Directed byStrathford Hamilton
Produced by Phillip Avalon
Starring Sigrid Thornton
Robert Mammone
Release date
  • 2003 (2003)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Box officeA$982,317 (Australia) [1]

The Pact is a 2003 Australian film. [2]

The movie was privately financed. [3]

Plot

Teenage friends Susan, Wilga, Patricia and Kenny are train surfers, seeking an adrenaline high. One day they run out of luck when Patricia is impaled on a water pipe. Following her death, the others make a pact to do something good to honour her name - or come back and ride the train again in 15 years to their death. 15 years later Susan and Kenny have forgotten about the pact, but Wilga, having spent his time in prisons and mental wards over the years has come to collect on the pact. Wilga murders Susan's boyfriend and kidnaps her daughter to blackmail her into riding with him to the end of the line. [4]

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References

  1. "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria. Retrieved 13 November 2012
  2. Avalon, Phil (2015). From Steel City to Hollywood. New Holland. pp. 263–265.
  3. Andrew L Urban, "Robert Mammone: The Pact", Urban Cinefilme, 21 November 2002. Retrieved 9 November 2012
  4. "The Pact". IMDb .