Synopsis
Kieran Darcy-Smith's feature debut is a calmly devastating exploration of how one misjudged moment in life has the potential to cause everything to fall to pieces. Dave reluctantly travels to Cambodia with his pregnant wife and her younger sister and new boyfriend, and after a night of partying the boyfriend disappears without a trace. The others are left to return to their lives, each bearing differing degrees of knowledge about what happened. Delivering doses of information bit by bit, the film's meticulously edited, nonlinear disclosure of events is transfixing-as are the superb performances.
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Movie Details
| Australia Releases: |
April 26th, 2012 (Wide) |
| Video Release: |
September 10th, 2013 by eOne |
| MPAA Rating: |
R for language, some drug content, brief sexuality and violence.
(Rating bulletin 2238, 8/29/2012) |
| Running Time: |
89 minutes |
| Keywords: |
Tourists In Trouble, Non-Chronological, Infidelity, Missing Person, Summer Vacation, Narcotics, Organized Crime, Relationships Gone Wrong |
| Source: | Original Screenplay |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Contemporary Fiction |
| Production/Financing Companies: |
Screen Australia, Screen NSW, Fulcrum Media Finance, LevelK, Hopscotch Films, Aquarius Films, Blue Tongue Films |
| Production Countries: |
Australia |
| Languages: |
English |
September 10th, 2013
The home market is looking to be a whole lot brighter this week with Star Trek into Darkness leading the way. It's not the only first-run release to come out this week, but it is by far the biggest. On the other hand, there are tons of TV on DVD releases, tons and tons of them. This includes Homeland: Season Two, which is a contender for Pick of the Week. However, the screener is on its way, so I'm going to hold off on that declaration. Instead, that honor goes to Castle: Season Five. Meanwhile, War Witch's DVD release earns the Puck of the Week for the best Canadian release.
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June 12th, 2013
Much Ado About Nothing lived up to the hype earning first place on the per theater chart with an average of $34,388 in five theaters. This is enough to suggest significant expansion, but I think it is too "art house" to expand even semi-wide. Dirty Wars opened in second place with an average of $15,876 in four theaters. This is an excellent start for a documentary. The overall box office leader, The Purge, earned third place with an average of $13,430. The final film in the $10,000 club was Before Midnight with an average of $10,123 in 52 theaters during its third weekend of release.
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June 7th, 2013
There are not a ton of new releases this week, but there are a few earning good reviews, and even a couple that are earning excellent reviews. Hopefully several will do well enough at the box office to thrive, but the only one I'm really bullish about is Much Ado About Nothing. It has excellent reviews, lots of buzz, and plenty of name recognition on both sides of the camera.
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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
|---|
| 2012/04/27 |
7 |
$291,251 |
|
38 |
$7,665 |
$342,632 |
1 |
| 2012/05/04 |
10 |
$218,663 |
-25% |
38 |
$5,754 |
$666,277 |
2 |
| 2012/05/11 |
9 |
$159,639 |
-27% |
43 |
$3,713 |
$904,722 |
3 |
| 2012/05/18 |
9 |
$128,481 |
-20% |
45 |
$2,855 |
$1,091,060 |
4 |
| 2012/05/25 |
11 |
$94,400 |
-27% |
49 |
$1,927 |
$1,229,884 |
5 |
| 2012/06/01 |
10 |
$83,617 |
-11% |
47 |
$1,779 |
$1,350,107 |
6 |
| 2012/06/08 |
13 |
$53,899 |
-36% |
32 |
$1,684 |
$1,350,855 |
7 |
| 2012/06/15 |
16 |
$35,325 |
-34% |
32 |
$1,104 |
$1,415,123 |
8 |
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