Blackrock
1997, Film, 103 min, Drama, Thriller, English, Australia, MoviePedia score 61
When all you can hear is your own silence.
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.
Directed by Steven Vidler
Cast
- Laurence Breuls as Jared
- Linda Cropper as Diane
- Simon Lyndon as Ricko
- Chris Haywood as Det. Sgt. Wilansky
- Rebecca Smart as Cherie
- Jeanette Cronin as Lesley Warner
- David Field as Ken Warner
- Justine Clarke as Tiffany
- Essie Davis as Det.Gilhooley
- Jessica Napier as Rachel
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