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Everlasting Secret Family (The)
- Director: Michael Thornhill
- Writer: Frank Moorhouse
- Producer: Antony I. Ginnane; Michael Thornhill
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Boys school nonsense - child abuse by the powerful.
A cruel and perverse take on Dorian Gray.
Considering when this was made - it is utterly amazing that the Australian government allowed this to be screened.
It really is that offensive.
The Masons have gone gay!
It may even be a very important film - it's definitely a dangerous one.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.
Cast & Characters
Arthur Dignam as Senator;
Mark Lee as Youth;
Heather Mitchell as Wife;
Dennis Miller as Eric the Chauffeur;
Paul Goddard as Son;
Beth Child as Pottery Woman;
John Clayton as Mayor;
Nick Holland as New Chauffeur;
Bogdan Koca as Medical Specialist;
John Meillon as Judge;
Anna Volska as Wife's Friend;
Allan Penney as Gardener;
Louis Nowra as Shop Assistant;
Dominic Barry as Bell Captain;
Tony Bremner as Piano Singer