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HEATWAVE
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Director: PHILLIP NOYCEFormat: PAL
Language: ENGLISH
Region: All
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Number of Discs: 1
Rating: M
DVD Release Date: 02/07/2007
Run Time: 98 min
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Special features
- RE-VISITING HEATWAVE - AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR PHIILIP NOYCE
- STILLS GALLERY
- THEATRICAL TRAILER
- UMBRELLA TRAILERS
Synopsis
Director Phillip Noyce’s compelling follow-up to Newsfront, Heatwave is the infamous Australian political thriller inspired by the disappearance of Sydney journalist and anti-development campaigner Juanita Neilson.
Like Newsfront, Heatwave details the moral dilemmas of a man of conscious, an ambitious architect, Stephen West (Richard Moir), whose inner city housing project has been compromised by a corrupt property developer (Chris Haywood) and his big business cronies. With stand-over men sent in to evict demonstrating squatters, social justice campaigner Kate Dean (Judy Davis) alerts West to a looming conspiracy when her friend, an activist and journalist, disappears and is presumed murdered.
Noyce brilliantly evokes the oppressive mood of a stifling heat wave in inner Sydney in this compelling conspiracy thriller where death, deceit and corruption taint all.
Like Newsfront, Heatwave details the moral dilemmas of a man of conscious, an ambitious architect, Stephen West (Richard Moir), whose inner city housing project has been compromised by a corrupt property developer (Chris Haywood) and his big business cronies. With stand-over men sent in to evict demonstrating squatters, social justice campaigner Kate Dean (Judy Davis) alerts West to a looming conspiracy when her friend, an activist and journalist, disappears and is presumed murdered.
Noyce brilliantly evokes the oppressive mood of a stifling heat wave in inner Sydney in this compelling conspiracy thriller where death, deceit and corruption taint all.
