Don's Party (1976)

Directed by

Bruce Beresford

Genre

erotic film, comedy drama

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of friends gather at Don and Kath's house for an election night party. As the evening wears on, the drinking and arguing strip away their polite masks and expose their disappointments and resentments.

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What happens

Don's Party is a 1976 Australian black comedy film based on the play Don's Party by David Williamson with a screenplay by Williamson, directed by Bruce Beresford. John Hargreaves plays Don Henderson with Jeanie Drynan as Don's wife Kath. Ray Barrett plays Mal, Don's mentor, and Pat Bishop is his wife. Graham Kennedy plays Mack, Graeme Blundell is the Liberal supporter and Veronica Lang his obedient wife. Kerry (Candy Raymond) is the attractive and assertive artist and Evan (Kit Taylor) is her uptight and possessive partner. Cooley (Harold Hopkins) comes with his young girlfriend Susan (Clare Binney). In the film the setting is relocated to the suburb of Westleigh (7 Windam Place) in the northern suburbs of Sydney. The film also deviates from the stage version by increasing the level of profanity and contains full frontal nudity and sex scenes. Pat Bishop won the AFI Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Veronica Lang won the AFI Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Bruce Beresford won the Best Direction award, David Williamson won the Best screenplay award, and the film won the edit and sound award. The film was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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