The Rage in Placid Lake
2003, 90 minutes, Rated M
Precocious, bohemian teenager Placid Lake finishes high school and his graduation stunt - an act of revenge against the school he hates - has landed him in hospital for months.
Chastened by the experience, he decides to do the one thing that will annoy his new age parents the most - go straight!
Placid attempts to reinvent himself as an obedient corporate drone, a cross between Dale (How to Win Friends...) Canegie and George W. Bush.
Can Placid Lake retire his rage in the pursuit of beige; embrace conformity and leap on the fast track to corporate success? Will his brainiac friend Gemma be able to talk him out of this economic rationalist madness? And will poor Doug and Sylvia survive the ignominy of having a son with a burgeoning future in insurance? A razor-sharp wit lurks beneath a blanket of pastel-hued, middle class suburbia in Tony McNamara's blackly comic The Rage In Placid Lake.
- Director:
- Tony McNamara [1],
- Starring:
- Miranda Richardson [40], Francis McMahon [2], Claire Danes [28], Garry McDonald [29], Nathaniel Dean [4], Rose Byrne [23], Toby Schmitz [1], Christopher Stollery [3], Saskia Smit [1], Ben Lee [2], Nicholas Hammond [5],
- Screen Formats:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Language and Sound:
- English 5.1 Dolby Digital
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