Suburban Mayhem (2006)

Directed by

Paul Goldman

Genre

comedy film, comedy drama

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 19-year-old single mother with a criminal record schemes to kill her father when he threatens to take her child away. She is wild and neglectful, and her plan spirals out of control.

darkly comicirreverenttenseunpredictablegrittyunsettlingsatirical

What happens

Suburban Mayhem is a 2006 Australian comedy thriller film directed by Paul Goldman and written by Alice Bell. Starring Emily Barclay, Michael Dorman, Anthony Hayes, Robert Morgan, Steve Bastoni, Mia Wasikowska and Genevieve Lemon, the film follows Katrina Skinner (Barclay), a 19-year-old single mother with a long history of petty crimes who plots to murder her father John (Morgan) after he threatens to take custody of her child away from her due to her wild lifestyle and negligent behaviour. Suburban Mayhem premiered at Cannes Film Festival on 24 May 2006, where it was nominated for the Un Certain Regard. The film was theatrically released in Australia on 26 October 2006, to negative reviews from critics and was a box office failure, grossing $184,902 against its $4 million production budget. Despite this, it received a leading 12 nominations at the 2006 Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Direction for Goldman, Best Original Screenplay for Bell, and Best Supporting Actress for Lemon, and won three, for Best Actress for Barclay, Best Supporting Actor for Hayes, and Best Original Music Score for Mick Harvey. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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