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55% Critic Match
Blackrock
“When all you can hear is your own silence.”
5.5 / 10• 1997• 1h 30m•NR• English
DramaThriller
Storyline
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.
Cast & Crew
Laurence Breuls
Jared Kirby
Lead
Linda Cropper
Diane Kirby
Simon Lyndon
Brett "Ricko" Ricketson
Chris Haywood
Det. Sgt. Wilansky
Rebecca Smart
Cherie Milenko
Jeanette Cronin
Lesley Warner
David Field
Ken Warner
Justine Clarke
Tiffany
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Steven Vidler's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Blackrock is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
