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7.0/10 • 170

2021-09-301h 52m

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April 28, 1996, an event upsets Australia

Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitting in. As his anger grows, he begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most heinous of acts.

Directors
Justin Kurzel
Writters
Shaun Grant
Editors
Nick Fenton

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Caleb Landry Jones

    Caleb Landry Jones

    Nitram

  2. Judy Davis

    Judy Davis

    Mother

  3. Anthony LaPaglia

    Anthony LaPaglia

    Dad

  4. Sean Keenan

    Sean Keenan

    Jamie

  5. Essie Davis

    Essie Davis

    Helen

  6. Phoebe Taylor

    Phoebe Taylor

    Riley

  7. Lucy-Rose Leonard

    Lucy-Rose Leonard

    Girl In The Bar

  8. Annabel Marshall-Roth

    Annabel Marshall-Roth

    Real-estate Agent

  9. Ethan Cook

    Ethan Cook

    Teacher

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CinemaSerf

Jul 5, 2022

7/10

Caleb Landry Jones is really good as the eponymous character in this well told story of the build up to the worst gun-crime atrocity in Australian history. As the title may suggest, this young man has some mental health issues that his peers have enjoyed ridiculing over the years and that his parents Judy Davis and Anthony LaPaglia have spent some time trying to manage - and that's not been an easy task. He wants to learn to surf, but to buy a board he needs cash so starts his own lawn-cutting enterprise. He asks an eccentric, but wealthy, local woman "Helen" (Essie Davis) if he can cut her lawn but his mower breaks down so she asks him to walk her dogs instead. The pair start to bond over some Gilbert & Sullivan, and after a row with his long suffering mother he moves in and the pair plan a trip to Los Angeles together. Tragedy strikes before they can go, and he finds himself inheriting her wealth. This benefaction comes too late to stop another family tragedy but it does enable him to fund an unhealthy obsession with (very easily obtained) semi-automatic guns! Judy Davis offers a fine and nuanced performance here as his truly conflicted mother and Essie Davis is also really quite effective as his dog-loving friend who accepts him unreservedly. The film is presented as if these seemingly unrelated scenarios were a sequence of precariously stacked dominoes. Once one tumbles, there is an inevitability that "Nitram" will lose what little grasp he has and resort to something shocking - though perhaps not quite this! It is not a cheery film, indeed it is quite depressing to watch for much of the latter stages once hope has been well and truly extinguished from the young man's life; but it is most certainly worth watching if you are in the mood for something challenging.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Keywords
australiabased on true storymassacre1990sgun controlmass shootingport arthur