High Tide (1987)
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88% of critics liked it
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85% of users liked it
(226 ratings)
Gillian Armstrong directed this powerful and moving film containing a brilliant performance by Judy Davis. The story takes place in the small New South Wales seaside village of Eden. Davis is Lillie, who is renting a run-down trailer as she waits for her car to be repaired. One night, when Lillie is… More Gillian Armstrong directed this powerful and moving film containing a brilliant performance by Judy Davis. The story takes place in the small New South Wales seaside village of Eden. Davis is Lillie, who is renting a run-down trailer as she waits for her car to be repaired. One night, when Lillie is drunk and cannot walk from the toilet block back to her trailer, a teenage girl, Ally (Claudia Karvan) -- who lives with her free-spirited grandmother Bet (Jan Adele) in another trailer in the trailer park -- helps her back home. Lillie and Ally become good friends, and it is only when Lillie finally meets Bet that she realizes that Ally is, in fact, her own daughter, who she abandoned years earlier after the death of her husband. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Directed By
- Bárbara Ochoa, Gillian Armstrong
- Written By
- Laura Jones
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Dec 1, 1987 Wide
- Studio
- New Line Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Jeremy Heilman, MovieMartyr.com
High Tide simply will not work for audiences who fail to accept the massive contrivance at its center.
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Clint Morris, Moviehole
One of the great Australian movies of the last thirty years
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
A fine Australian film about the uneasy but hopeful relationship between a mother and the daughter she abandoned years earlier
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
An emotionally gripping woman's pic about a woman accidently discovering her past.
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Cast
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Judy Davis
as Lilli
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Jan Adele
as Bet
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Claudia Karvan
as Ally
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Colin Friels
as Mick Fisherman/Artist
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Frankie J. Holden
as Lester
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John Clayton
as Col
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Monica Trapaga
as Tracey
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Mark Hembrow
as Mechanic
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Marc Gray
as Jason
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May Howlett
as Mick's mum
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Emily Stocker
as Michelle
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Charles Camilleri
as Band member
- Ian McShane
- Kika Markham
- Terence Rigby
- John Bird
- Patrick Field
- Wendy Morgan
- Malcolm Terris
- Anna Fox
- Anne Harvard
- Toni Scanlan
- Eddie Fisher
