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Desperate Remedies

Country: New Zealand, Language: English, 93 mins

  • Director: Stewart Main; Peter Wells
  • Writer: Stewart Main; Peter Wells
  • Producer: Trishia Downie; James Wallace

CGiii Comment

From the men who are, almost single-handedly, responsible for all the LGBT [cinematic] output from New Zealand.

This is a stagey, high-camp, trippy, Alice-in-Underland-opera kinda thing - with scheming lesbians and hairy hunks.

It's colourful...and, bizarre.


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The(ir) Blurb...

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?

Cast & Characters

Jennifer Ward-Lealand as Dorothea Brook;
Kevin Smith as Lawrence Hayes;
Lisa Chappell as Anne Cooper;
Cliff Curtis as Fraser;
Michael Hurst as Willam Poyser;
Kiri Mills as Rose;
Bridget Armstrong as Mary Anne;
Timothy Raby as Mr. Weedle;
Helen Steemson as Gnits;
Geeling Ng as Su Lim;
Kate Bartlett as Chorus #1;
Johnny Bond as Chorus #2;
Ann Coc-Kroft as Chorus #3;
Maya Dalziel as Chorus #4;
Alison Du Fresne as Chorus #5