Frank Whitten
Nacimiento : 1942-11-15, Waikato, New Zealand
Muerte : 2011-02-12
Giles Taffy QC
Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Beasley. It was nominated for "best miniseries or telemovie" at both the AFI Awards and the Logie Awards, losing to The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant at both; and for two additional AFI Awards and an additional Logie Award, all of which it lost to Love My Way.
Starkey
Adaptación de la historia de J. M. Barrie acerca de un niño que nunca creció. Los tres niños de la familia Darling reciben una visita de Peter Pan, quien los lleva a la Tierra de Nunca Jamás, donde una guerra continua entre la pandilla de Peter y los Niños Perdidos y el malvado pirata Capitán Garfio está teniendo lugar.
Primate
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.
Escher
Set in the nuclear war-torn world of 2040, a congested city is shrouded in a deadly smog, where breathable air is obtainable only through labyrinth shafts that transport the precious gas from high in the atmosphere. These passages are kept functioning by an elite 'Air Force'. The team risk annihilation to expose a deadly blackmail scheme.
Ron
A gang of construction workers try to relieve tension by taunting their newest member.
Newton
Ella tiene la visión nocturna de un halcón, puede oler una gota de sangre a una milla de distancia, y es capaz de cambiar su color de piel y su ropa orgánica para mimetizarse con cualquier fondo. Ella es Kam, un clon genéticamente manipulado creado por un grupo de elite de la policía llamado IBI. Cuando un valioso microchip necesita ser recuperado, Kam es elegida para la misión. Pero cuando se encuentra con el recientemente huérfano hijo del creador del microchip decide tener su propia misión: conseguir la seguridad del niño.
Koala (voice)
¿Puede un perrito conquistar el mundo si tiene un aspecto dulce y tierno y su nombre es Copito? No ha de ser fácil, seguro. Así que el cachorro prefiere que le llamen Napoleón. Porque lo que él quiere es lanzarse a la aventura, conocer nuevos lugares, liberar sus verdaderos instintos y disfrutar de la vida salvaje.Un día llega la oportunidad. Un globo le aleja accidentalmente de la tranquilidad del hogar y la protección de su madre. Napoleón aterriza en las regiones más salvajes de Australia, donde deberá aprender a sobrevivir por sí mismo. El valiente perrito aventurero conocerá a todo tipo de animales. Algunos serán sus amigos, pero otros se convertirán en un terrible peligro.
Dr. Henderson
Private detective Dirk Trent, a collector of cigarette butts, a "smooth" ladies man, a wearer of bad suits, and he's convinced there's more to an incident he caught on tape, where a man seemed about to murder his mistress with an axe. Delving deeper, the film enters some seldom-trodden territory as it slips easily into horror and sci-fi, while still maintaining the hilarious dialogue
Brother Jerome
A poignant and forceful saga which traces the fortunes of two English children uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien environment of Australia in the years following World War Two.
Dad
An ex-convict pays for his wife's marijuana by keeping the green at a lawn-bowling club
Michael
A teenage boy wants to leave his home town.
Mr Spiggs
A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his dreams become more engrossing than his everyday world and girlfriend. Gradually he unravels the tragedy of his spirit lovers' past. To respond to her call, he needs to embrace the hearafter.
Blue
Carlos has failed in show-biz and currently works as a waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex and dumb footballer Bruce celebrating their engagement with her parents. Alex' father is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée.
Engineer
Sam works on the tolls and likes to listen. He overhears more than he bargains for and becomes embroiled in a mishmash of corruption and blackmail. Anna is a hooker who specializes in throwing tomatoes at ageing weirdos. Sam and Anna's paths cross as he works to expose shady maneuvrings by the CEO of Infacorp, who is out to land a contract to build a tunnel under Auckland harbour.
Frank Robertson
After a day of filming her popular "Window On The World" television series, hostess Katherine returns to her hotel room to find Clifford, an ex-CIA agent who reveals a saga of a worldwide organization that seeks to destroy the economic stability of every major country. Katherine seizes this opportunity to become a "real journalist" like star reporter Jerry, against the direct orders of news director Carl.
Premier John Morgan
A new Premier is elected promising to clean up corruption. He sets up a taskforce headed by a traffic cop thinking he won’t get far. But Inspector Riordan opens up a can of worms and won’t let it go – all the way to the top.
Farmer
Monica arrives back from her big overseas experience to find her boyfriend Nick unchanged. Although Nick styles himself an artist, he is really something of a cultural redneck, and when the couple head up north for a break, and they meet up with Riki, a poet, who is rather less shallow and charming.
Ethan Ruir
Toss vive en una granja de ovejas con su padre en Nueva Zelanda. Cuando el padre de Toss muere en un accidente, Ethan, un cazador itinerante, vaga a la granja familiar y su abuelo le da un trabajo. La relación bastante inocente de Toss con Ethan se rompe cuando él establece una relación con su madre.
Stan Gubbins
A young woman searches for her identity by joining a "free love" hippie commune, against the wishes of her darkly possessive widowed father. The tensions of small town New Zealand and individual conflicts generated by intolerance and fear, unleashes forces of violence and betrayal.