Sweetie
(DVD)

Originally produced as an Australian motion picture in 1989.

Special features: Commentary with Jane Campion, Gerard Lee, and Sally Bongers [optional audio feature]; Making "Sweetie" [featurette with Karen Colston and Genevieve Lemon] (23 min.); Short films: "An Exercise in Discipline: Peel" (9 min.), "Passionless Moments" (12 min.), "A Girl's Own Story" (27 min.); "Jane Campion: The Film School Years" [featurette] (19 min.); Production gallery [slide show]; Trailer (2 min.); Booklet includes "Jane Campion's Experiment" by Dana Polan.

Note:This recording does not have a British classification. To comply with the Video Recording Act 1984 it must be viewed inthe library or in a classroom, and may not be borrowed for home use.].

Director of photography, Sally Bongers ; editor, Veronika Haussler ; music, Martin Armiger ; art director, Peter Harris ; costume designer, Amanda Lovejoy.

Genevieve Lemon (Sweetie), Karen Colston (Kay), Tom Lycos (Louis), Dorothy Barry (Flo), Jon Darling (Gordon), Michael Lake (Bob).

As Tolstoy asserted, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This unhappy family has never confronted its unhappiness: Sweetie, so called since childhood, the apple of her father Bob's eye and the bane of her mother Flo's smothered existence. Her sister Kay is shy, superstitious, and sexually repressed where Sweetie is loud, slovenly, and quite possibly mentally ill. The family has managed to lead relatively normal lives by denying their bizarre family reality. Sweetie has terrorized her family for years, but an unexpected tragedy is about to loosen her spoiled brat grip on their psyches.

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1, enhanced for 16:9 televisions.

In English with optional subtitles in English; closed captioned.