When chasing your dreams... it helps to be a little crazy!
Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients, who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart, despite the fact that none of the patients can sing or speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.
Directed byMark Joffe
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- March 4, 1996
- Revenue
- $35,918
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Ben Mendelsohn
Lewis
Barry Otto
Roy
Toni Collette
Julie
Rachel Griffiths
Lucy
Aden Young
Nick
Colin Friels
Errol
Jacki Weaver
Cherry
Pamela Rabe
Ruth
Paul Chubb
Henry
Colin Hay
Zac
- Directed by
- Mark Joffe
- Written by
- Louis Nowra
- Produced by
- Timothy WhiteRichard Brennan
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