A lesbian Philip Marlowe prowls the mean streets of the Australian poetry scene in search of a young girl's killer in Samantha Lang's sultry neo-noir pastiche. Private investigator Jill Fitzpatrick (Susie Porter) needs a new job: A former policewoman, Jill's been trying to make it as a detective-for-hire but has little to show for it, other than some hard-won wisdom (complete with scars) about homophobic cops. So when she gets a call from the distraught mother of an honest-to-God missing person, Jill pounces. Mrs. Norris (Linden Wilkinson) wants Jill to help the police search for her daughter, Mickey (Abbie Cornish), a university student and aspiring poetess who was ...
Released:
2000
Rated:
NR
Length:
91 mins