Vacant Possession (film)

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Vacant Possession
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Directed by Margot Nash
Written by Margot Nash
Produced by John Winter
Starring Pamela Rabe
John Stanton
Toni Scanlan
Tommy Lewis
Tony Barry
Cinematography Dion Beebe
Edited by Veronika Jenet
Music by Alistair Jones
Distributed by Wintertime Films
Release date
  • 23 May 1995 (1995-05-23)(Australia)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Vacant Possession is a 1995 Australian drama film directed and written by Margot Nash and starring Pamela Rabe and John Stanton. The film was nominated for 5 awards at the 1995 Australian Film Institute Awards. [1]

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Plot

Following the death of her mother Tessa (Pamela Rabe), a young woman, returns after many years to the weather-beaten family home on the shores of Sydney's Botany Bay. But the old family home begins to bring old wounds more and more to life. The story unfolds through flashbacks yet as it progresses the flashbacks merge into the present as it becomes apparent that the situation Tessa has returned to is very much the result of that which passed before. [2] [3]

Cast

Awards

Nominations

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References

  1. ↑ "Past Awards | AACTA". aacta.org. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  2. ↑ O'Brien, Gabrielle (March 2016). "Sensing the Past: Margot Nash's Vacant Possession". Senses of Cinema (78).
  3. ↑ "Curator's notes Vacant Possession (1994) on ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online". aso.gov.au. Retrieved 3 September 2018.


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