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The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)

The Rage in Placid Lake poster
Directed by
Tony McNamara
Genre
comedy film
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 29m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 35 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenager named Placid Lake grows up with eccentric hippie parents. To rebel against them, he takes a job at a boring insurance company.

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What happens

The Rage in Placid Lake is a 2003 Australian comedy film written and directed by Tony McNamara and starring Ben Lee and Rose Byrne. It features Placid Lake (Lee), a seventeen-year-old boy who has led a suburban hippie life with his neurotic, free loving parents. The film documents his journey of self-discovery as he rejects his hippie roots and embraces the mundane by working for an insurance agency, much to his parents' horror. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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