Laurence Breuls, Linda Cropper, Heath Ledger

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 rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next ...( read more  read more... )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.

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Unrated, 102 min.

Directed by: Steven Vidler

Release Date: May 1, 1997

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DVD Release Date: May 2, 2000

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  • February 14, 2009
    Loving it LOVE ya HEATH
  • August 1, 2008
    Despite a very tiny budget, this Aussie mystery-drama is pretty well done. There are some beautiful shots done at the opening scene party, on the beach, and in the rain. Nicely acted by the ensemble, especially Laurence Breuls as the lead keeping a terrible secret from everyone. ...( read more)Blink and you'll miss him, but Heath Ledger makes a brief appearance in two or three scenes.
  • July 30, 2008
    id like 2 see this it sounds pretty interesting
  • April 12, 2008
    GOOD MOVIE NOT MUCH OF HEATH IN IT THOUGH.
  • August 19, 2007
    Hardly worth the effort.

    And the most ridiculous thing is, nowadays, the only thing that sells this DVD is the quote on the front: "Heath Ledger's first film!" Quite sad.

    Performed lacklustrely, filmed without care, and no attempt to act at all. The only ones worth mentioni...( read more)ng would be John Howard and Linda Cropper, who play Jared's (Laurence Breuls) mother anf father. They at least evoke a little life into their characters. Simon Lyndon, who portrayed Jared in the stage production of Blacrock, was downgraded to Ricko, in a very uninspired move. And the filmmakers are intent on including as much nudity as possible, without going into ultra-sexed-up nudity, though it almost does in the almost good rape scene.

    Although it's an Australian movie, and it's a well-known fact that most Australian's in movies cannot act (i know, seeing as i am one), this film is trying to make things worse for itself by drowning out the speaking with heavy Aussie rock, which is very good on its own, but is butchered here, to dull effect.

    Don't worry about seeing Blackrock, it was only made so Year 10's, 11's and 12's in Australia could use it as a study source to accompany the stageplay literary adaption.
  • August 11, 2007
    my least favorite heath ledger movie...it just has no point.
  • August 8, 2007
    its a sad movie heath dosent have big part. but he's the good guy so yeah.

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  • starijane
    September 20, 2006
    One of my favourite movies... ok so I'm from Newcastle... can't help but go all fuzzy inside at the sight of the harbour and the ships and the beaches... The soundtrack is very decent... the cinematography is pretty... the light is lovely... the characters are tragic, endearing.... the story, regardless of what Nick Enright says, is based in reality, and this interpretation, shot in Newcastle, reinforces that.
    Definitely worth a look.

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