Australia · 1997
1h 44m
Director Nadia Tass
Starring Alana De Roma, Ben Mendelsohn, Rachel Griffiths, Nick Barker
Genre Comedy, Drama
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence.
We hate to say it, but we can't find anywhere to view this film.
If Tass had found a way to include more playfulness, her film would be more endearing. Instead, she accents the easy bathos of David Parker's script, from the problems of the shrill, cliched neighbors to a finale that plays like a movie of the week.
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
Alana De Roma is going to be a tremendous star.
Village Voice by Jessica Winter
Plumbs new depths of craven heartstring-yanking.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
A skilled heart-tugger from Australia that verges on rock opera.
The New York Times by Lawrence Van Gelder
Warm of heart, modest in polish, Amy provides satisfactions that must be balanced against its flaws.
The sort of heart-tugger a small group of people will love passionately.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Paula Nechak
In the end, it trivializes the psychological complexity of the girl's post-traumatic stress and betrays a game group of actors who struggle to find balance between the alternately dark drama and the silly, over-the-top melodrama.
TV Guide Magazine by Steve Simels
Your ability to overlook the film's myriad contrivances will ultimately depend on how you react to little De Roma.
The adventures of a Time Lord known only as the Doctor, who travels through time and space fighting monsters and other villainous megalomaniacs.
A New Power Is Rising.
The adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence, and Beethoven.
A whimsical love letter to contemporary Parisian life in the form of an eccentric romantic comedy.
A man, thoroughly dissatisfied with his life, finds new meaning when he forms a fight club with soap salesman Tyler Durden.
A new comedy of no manners
A failed stand-up comedian is driven insane, turning to a life of crime in chaos in Gotham City.
Two British soldiers race to deliver a message that will stop over 1,000 men from walking into a German ambush.