Erotic comedy starring Hugh Grant, Tara FitzGerald and Sam Neill. Australia, the 1930s: when a controversial painting planned to be exhibited by artist Norman Lindsay offends the church, a young vicar who has just arrived from England is sent to Lindsay's home to try to persuade him to withdraw the work.
Following the success of Four Weddings and a Funeral, this prettified period piece came as something of a shock to fans of Hugh Grant's foppish Four Weddings hero. He plays a prudish clergyman whose first task in his new Australian parish is to prevent bohemian artist Norman Lindsay (Sam Neill) from exhibiting both his models and his portraits of them. Director John Duigan contents himself with a few gentle barbs and elegant bons mots, but rather loses his way once Grant's less inhibited wife, Tara FitzGerald, joins Elle Macpherson and her fellow poseurs. Visually pleasing, but films of this sort need to be more than just something to look at.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Anthony Campion | Hugh Grant |
| Estella Campion | Tara FitzGerald |
| Norman Lindsay | Sam Neill |
| Sheela | Elle Macpherson |
| Giddy | Portia de Rossi |
| Pru | Kate Fischer |
| Rose Lindsay | Pamela Rabe |
| Lewis | Ben Mendelsohn |
| Tom | John Polson |
| Devlin | Mark Gerber |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | John Duigan |
