Monkey's Mask (The)
- Director: Samantha Lang
- Writer: Anne Kennedy; Dorothy Porter
- Producer: Robert Connolly; John Maynard
CGiii Comment
Lesbian private detective falls for an intellectual whilst looking for a missing poet who likes to say cunt...alot.
The voice-over - a dud mechanism for revealing the inner thoughts - is over-used.
Lang's direction is run-of-the-mill...but, it is the script that is the ultimate failing...read it out loud first - if it doesn't sound right...bin it.
Predictable, formulaic...dull.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Jill Fitzpatrick is a 28-year old, street-smart, out-of-work private investigator wishing she wasn't celibate. Eager for the taste of adrenaline, she accepts a job investigating the disappearance of Mickey, a young female student. Jill quickly strikes a spark with the seductive Diana, Mickey's poetry lecturer. But it is not long before Mickey's strangled body is found. Distrusting the cops, Mickey's grief-stricken parents ask Jill to find her murderer. Jill is soon hurled into a passionate liaison with Diana as she enters the surprisingly seamy underworld of Mickey's life, looking for clues to her murder. For whom did Mickey write her sexually charged poems? What is the connection between Mickey and her two favorite poets? Who is leaving threatening messages in verse on Jill's answering machine? Blinded by her passion, Jill is compromised in her search for the truth - until her own life is in danger.
Cast & Characters
Susie Porter as Jill Fitzpatrick;
Kelly McGillis as Professor Diana Maitland;
Marton Csokas as Nick Maitland;
Abbie Cornish as Mickey Norris;
William Zappa as Detective Sergeant Wesley;
Brendan Cowell as Hayden;
Jim Holt as Bill McDonald;
Bojana Novakovic as Tianna;
Jean-Pierre Mignon as Tony Brach;
Caroline Gillmer as Barbara Brach;
John Noble as Mr. Norris;
Linden Wilkinson as Mrs. Norris;
Chris Haywood as Dad Fitzpatrick;
Deborah Mailman as Lou;
Charlotte Rose Regan as Cerebral Girl