Titles tagged with ‘mental breakdown’

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Chequerboard Revisited – Episode 5: You Can’t Have A Child That’s Ugly (2000)

In 1969, the ABC documentary program Chequerboard, made a program about child performers. Thirty-one years later, two of them agreed to be filmed for Chequerboard Revisited.

Floating Life (1996)

As China prepares to take control of Hong Kong in 1997, a Hong Kong Chinese family disperses around the world. Mr and Mrs Chan (Edwin Pang and Cecilia ...

Mad Dog Morgan (1976)

Daniel Morgan (Dennis Hopper) becomes a bushranger after hard times in prison and the Victorian goldfields. Saved by Billy, an Aboriginal outcast (David Gulpilil), the two men terrorise ...

Shine (1996)

David Helfgott (played as a child by Alex Rafalowicz) is a piano prodigy, growing up in Perth in the 1950s. His father Peter (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is a loving ...

Tom White (2004)

After a meltdown at work, architectural draughtsman Tom White (Colin Friels) walks out on his family and tries to lose himself in alcohol and anonymity. He becomes homeless ...

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