Soft Fruit

(1999)

Soft Fruit is a comedy/drama about a misfit family who are all bought together to be with their mother who is in the final stages of dying from cancer. The family, consisting of 3 daughters and a recently released from prison son, are all of the larger variety and have varying relationships with the other members of the family, particularly the father who seems to alienate everyone. As the mother's condition deteriorates, we find that the relationships wither become closer or more strained. I don't really want to give a detailed account of the movie and that description is very vague, but it's been a few months since I've rewatched it and I can't remember a whole lot about it. I suppose that shows how interested I am in the film...

Sacha Horler film clips (collages below)

Sensitive New Age Killer is a comedy action film set in Melbourne about a hitman who is having quite a number of problems. He is being blackmailed for sex by a policewoman (Carolyn Bock) who knows that he's a hitman, his partner is the shonkiest guy ever, whether it's deliberately stuffing up the hits or blackmailing the hitman's wife (Helen Hopkins) into sex because it turns out the partner is the father of the hitman's child. And the partner is the sleaziest man ever. When a big shot Chinese gangster comes to town, a $1 million dollar bounty is placed on his head and the hitman wants in. Of course, his partner wants him to fail and the policewoman wants her share, so it's up to the hitman to do it alone and against numerous security. This film I do remember and it's a lot of fun. It's very low budget, but it doesn't skimp on the action, even if some of it is completely ludicrous. And definitely influenced by those Hong Kong gunplay action films from the 80s and 90s, which is never a bad thing.

Helen Hopkins film clips (collages below)

Satin Simone film clips (index below)