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Envy (1999 Film)
''Envy'' is a 1999 Australian film directed by Julie Money starring Linda Cropper, Anna Lise Phillips and Wade Osbourne. Plot After reclaiming her stolen dress, Kate and her family are targeted by the thief and her friends. Cast *Linda Cropper - Kate * Anna Lise Phillips - Rachel *Jeff Truman - Phil *Scott Major - Nick *Wade Osbourne - Matt * Abi Tucker - Lissa Reception Jane Freebury of The Canberra Times gave it a positive review stating "From the moment it began to the freeze frame of the feral threesome fooling around on a playground roundabout, director Julie Money and writer Jeff Truman had me by the throat." Writing in the ''Sydney Morning Herald'', Sandra Hall Sandra L. Hall (born September 5, 1951) is an American blues and soul blues singer and songwriter. She has been billed as Atlanta's "Empress of the Blues" Hall is an Honorary Member of the Atlanta Blues Society. To date she has released five ... commented "It's terse and it's clever, and its uncompromising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Truman
Jeffrey Maxwell Truman (4 November 1957 – 2 December 2014) was an Australian film and television screenwriter and actor. Career A member of the Australian Writer Guild for more than 30 years, Truman's television credits include '' Rescue: Special Ops'', ''City Homicide'', ''Packed to the Rafters'', ''The Strip'', ''Sea Patrol'', '' Last Man Standing'', '' The Alice'', '' Stingers'' (nominated for an AWGIE Award for episode 118), ''McLeod's Daughters'', ''Neighbours'' (for which he wrote 148 episodes, and was also nominated for an AWGIE Award for episode 4155), ''Home and Away'', '' E Street'', ''A Country Practice'', '' Fat Tony & Co.'', ''Winter'', and ''The Doctor Blake Mysteries''. He also wrote for '' Underbelly: Razor'' (nominated for an AWGIE award in 2012), '' Underbelly: Badness'', and '' Underbelly: Squizzy''. In total Truman received five AWGIE nominations and in 2013, won the award for Best Original Mini Series for ''Underbelly: Badness''. Truman wrote the feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Cropper
Linda Cropper (born 1 January 1958) is an Australian actress, primarily known for her role as Geraldine Proudman in the TV series ''Offspring'' and as Dame Nellie Melba in the television series '' Melba''. A shortened version of ''Melba'' was selected for screening as a film at a Royal Command Performance before Queen Elizabeth II in London. Career Television Cropper's television credits include roles in ABC miniseries ''Palace of Dreams'', '' Edens Lost'', '' Ring of Scorpio'', '' Bordertown'', '' Wildside'', '' Water Rats'', '' All Saints'', '' White Collar Blue'' and '' The Pacific''. She had a recurring role as Xhalax Sun during the third season of the Australian-American science fiction series ''Farscape''. Film Cropper's film credits include '' Teesh and Trude'' (2002), '' Little Fish'' (2005) and ''Fool's Gold'' (2008). Theatre Cropper's many theatre credits include Simon Phillip's co-production of ''Poor Boy'' for the Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Lise Phillips
Anna Lise Phillips (born 1975) is an Australian actress. She is sometimes credited as Anna Lise, Anna Lise Philips, or Anna-Lise Phillips. Early life Phillips grew up in Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia where she was a founding member of the Corrugated Iron Youth Theatre. Her mother was Maggi Phillips, a dancer . Career Philips' first major film role was in '' The Boys'' (1998) shortly followed by ''Envy'' (also known as ''The New Girlfriend'') for which she was nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film. Other films of note include Sundance award-winning; '' Animal Kingdom'', '' Walking on Water'', ''BackTrack'', '' The Pack'', '' A Wreck A Tangle'', and ''The Tank''. In 2002 Phillips played Mabel Fine in Icon's telemovie'' The Three Stooges'' with Michael Chiklis, Paul Ben Victor, and Evan Handler. Phillips first acted on television in 2002, starring in Channel 9's '' Young Lions''. In 2009, she appeared as Jeneana Palmer in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Major
Scott Ian Major (born 4 July 1975) is an Australian actor and TV and film director, known for his roles as Peter Rivers in the 1994 television teen drama series ''Heartbreak High'' and Lucas Fitzgerald in soap opera ''Neighbours''. After leaving ''Neighbours'' in 2013, Major returned to direct over 200 episodes of the serial. He has since gone on to direct episodes of '' Playing for Keeps'', and two miniseries '' Lie With Me'' and '' Riptide''. Major reprised his role as Rivers in the 2022 reboot of ''Heartbreak High''. Early life and education Scott Ian Major was born on 4 July 1975. His father was Melbourne radio sports broadcaster Ian Major. Career Major's acting debut came in the 1990 TV movie ''More Winners: His Master's Ghost''. He played Oates, a student in the comedy series '' Late For School'' in 1992, and then joined the cast of ''Neighbours'' for three months in 1993 as Darren Stark. Major appeared in the 1993 Australian romantic comedy film '' The Heartbreak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abi Tucker
Abigail Anne "Abi" Tucker (born 22 January 1973) is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress. She has had roles in television series-telemovies in ''Heartbreak High'' (1994-1995), '' Water Rats'' (1999), '' Wildside'' (1999), ''The Secret Life of Us'' (2001-2003), ''My Husband, my Killer'' (2001), ''McLeod's Daughters'' (2007-2009), ''Giggle and Hoot'' (2010) ABC's '' Play School'' (2006-2010); and in films ''The New Girlfriend'' (original title: Envy) (1996), ''Angst'' (2000) and ''The Wog Boy'' (2000). Her theatre credits include ''The Vagina Monologues'' (2000), ''Everything's F***ed'' workshop (2003), ''The Music and Lyrics of Sean Peter'' (2003), ''Breakfast with Jonny Wilkinson'' (2005), ''Poor Boy – Music of Tim Finn'' (2010) and Bell Shakespeare's ''As You Like It'' (2015). Career Abigail Anne Tucker came to public attention as a singer on the Australian program, New Faces in the early 1990s and in 1994 landed a role in the Australian TV series ''Heartbreak High'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Hall (writer)
Sandra Hall is an Australian author and journalist, best known as film reviewer for ''The Age'' and ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. History Hall began her working life as a cadet at the afternoon tabloid, ''The Sun'', studying Arts at Sydney University at night. She wrote a few movie reviews for ''The Sun'', then in 1964, she left Sydney for Canberra to join the staff of Rupert Murdoch's new national daily, ''The Australian''. The following year, she went to London, where she worked on the magazine, '' Woman's Own'', returning in 1966 to work on Network Ten's current affairs programme, ''Telescope'', before becoming a contributor to '' The Bulletin'', edited by Donald Horne, and ''The Australian'', where she was a television critic for a time. In 1971, she became ''The Bulletin'' 's film reviewer and in 1973, she won a $6,000 Fellowship from the Literature Board to write a history of Australian television. Entitled ''Supertoy: 20 Years of Australian Television'', it was published i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Australian Film Institute Awards
The 44th Australian Film Institute Awards (generally known as the 2002 AFI Awards), were a series of awards presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI). The awards celebrated the best in Australian feature film, television, documentary and short film productions of 2002. The ceremony took place at The Princess Theatre, Melbourne and was televised by Network Ten. Winners and nominees The nominations were announced on 19 October 2002. Leading the feature film nominees was ''Rabbit-Proof Fence'' with a total of ten nominations. All four of the Best Film nominees featured Indigenous subjects. ''The Secret Life of Us,'' Network Ten's drama about a group of friends who live in a St Kilda, gained the most television nominations with five. Tony Ayres' directorial debut, '' Walking on Water,'' exploring the grief, tenderness, stupidity and humour that arises from death, received five awards, the most for any production. In the television category, the small-screen movie ''The R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AACTA Award For Best Actress In A Supporting Role
The AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role is an accolade given by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote, and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television". The award is handed out at the annual AACTA Awards, which rewards achievements in feature film, television, documentaries, and short films. From 1976 to 2010, the category was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the academy's parent organisation, at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards). When the AFI launched the academy in 2011, it changed the annual ceremony to the AACTA Awards, with the current award being a continuum of the AFI Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Toni Collette and Judy Davis are the most awarded actresses in this category, with three wins each. Candidates for this award must be human and female An organism's sex is fem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Films
The year 1999 in film included Stanley Kubrick's posthumous final film '' Eyes Wide Shut'', Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film '' All About My Mother'', the science-fiction film '' The Matrix'', the animated works '' The Iron Giant'', ''Toy Story 2'', '' Tarzan'', and '' South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut'', the Best Picture-winner '' American Beauty'', and the well-received '' The Green Mile''. Other noteworthy releases include M. Night Shyamalan's '' The Sixth Sense'', David Fincher's '' Fight Club'', Sofia Coppola's '' The Virgin Suicides'', Paul Thomas Anderson's '' Magnolia'' and Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's '' Being John Malkovich''. The year also featured George Lucas' top-grossing '' Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace''. Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer celebrated their 75th anniversaries in 1999. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in 1999 by worldwide gross are as follows: Awards 1999 films By country/re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Drama Films
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA. * January 25 – The 6.2 Colombia earthquake hits western Colombia, killing at least 1,900 people. February * February 7 – Abdullah II inherits the throne of Jordan, following the death of his father King Hussein. * February 11 – Pluto moves along its eccentric orbit further from the Sun than Neptune. It had been nearer than Neptune since 1979, and will become again in 2231. * February 12 – U.S. President Bill Clinton is acquitted in impeachment proceedings in the United States Senate. * February 16 ** In Uzbekistan, an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov takes place at government headquarters. ** Across Europe, Kurdish protestors take over embassies and hold hostages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
