Lust and Revenge Movie

Lust and Revenge
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Run Time: 95 min
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Released: 1996
Directors: Paul Cox
Genre/Type: Comedy
Sex Comedy
Producers: Jane Ballantyne
Paul Cox
Plot Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's revenge against her cheating husband. Heiress Georgina Oliphant, the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate George Oliphant is on a mission to find a sculptor suitable of her father's sponsorship. Normally, George doesn't give a hoot about art, but tax time approaches and he needs a big deduction. Since large bronze statues are 100% deductible, that's what he wants. Georgina comes through with the lesbian sculptor Lily Carmichael who suggests a detailed male nude, sans fig leaf. For her model, lily chooses unemployed hunk Karl-Heinz Applebaum who at first doesn't realize he is to model totally nude. Fortunately, coquettish Georgina is around to convince him to shed those clothes. He soon begins looking forward to the sessions much to the dismay of his frowsy, sexually frosty wife Cecilia, a devout member of the "Center for Synchronic Awareness," an esoteric religious cult which is headed by the oily, avaricious Baba Charles whose picture Cecilia has placed throughout her home (Aussie film buffs may recognize the photo as that of director Rolf de Heer, a rival of this film's director Paul Cox). Soon enough, her husband and Georgina become lovers causing Cecilia to hatch an elaborate plot for revenge, a plot in which the financially beleaguered George Oliphant unwittingly assists by having her pose with her husband for an even larger, more tax deductible sculpture.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Ulli Birve Anna
Paul Cox New Age Customer Apr 16, 1940 in Venlo, Netherlands
Pamela Rabe Obnoxious Woman
Gosia Dobrowolska Cecilia Applebaum
Max Gillies Neil Pringle
Norman Kaye Baba Charles
Victoria Eagger Lily Carmichael
Wendy Hughes Oliphant's Adviser Jul 29, 1952 in Melbourne, Australia
Claudia Karvan Georgina Oliphant
Chris Haywood George Oliphant
Robert Menzies Psychiatrist
John Hargreaves Gallery Sleaze

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