Sweetie (1989)

Directed by

Jane Campion

Genre

comedy film, comedy drama

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 116 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman navigates her strained relationships with her parents and her volatile sister. The family's fragile balance is disrupted when the sister moves back home, exposing old resentments and emotional chaos.

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What happens

Sweetie is a 1989 Australian black comedy drama film directed by Jane Campion, and starring Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom Lycos, and Jon Darling. Co-written by Campion and Gerard Lee, the film documents the contentious and chaotic relationships among a woman in her twenties, her parents, and her emotionally unstable sister. It was Jane Campion's second feature film. It was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, and won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film in 1991. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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