John Howard
Biography: Has a sister, Jan. Grew up in Warrawee, NSW Australia and went to Knox Grammar School. Dropped out of medicine and law at university. Graduated in 1978 from NIDA with Penny Cook, Robert Grubb. Played leading roles from 1981 to 2012 in various plays. Won a Critics Circle award in 1992 for "The Crucible" and "Mongrels". Twice won Variety Entertainer of the Year (1992,2006). Nominated for an AFI award for "Joh's Jury" and nine times since.Silver logie winner for "Seachange" (2001) . Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company from 1992 to 1995. Launched the Australian People's Theatre (associated with the Sydney Theatre Company). Has a daughter born in 1996 and a son from a previous marriage. He is most famous for SeaChange (1998) and All Saints (2008). Ambassador for Variety (The Children's Charity) and Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation ( AMDF ).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 22, 1952
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
Young Einstein
1988-12-15
Young Einstein
Overview: Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-15
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Jindabyne
2006-07-20
Jindabyne
Overview: Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-20
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Gary's Story
1983-11-25
Gary's Story
Overview: A story of transition: from lust to compassion, compassion to escape and escape to Sydney. Truth plays a very small part.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-25
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Dating the Enemy
1996-09-19
Dating the Enemy
Overview: Television show host Brett and his laid-back science journalist girlfriend Tash despair that they will ever truly understand each other. On their first anniversary, under a full moon, a frustrated Tash declares her wish that they could swap lives. The next morning, Brett and Tash awaken to find Tash's wish has come true. Forced to confront the unfamiliar sensations of their "new" bodies, both must navigate strange new experiences with friends and co-workers.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-19
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The Club
1980-09-18
The Club
Overview: The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately. Game after game is lost until Geoff begins to realize that there is more at stake than just his own career.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-18
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Around the World in Eighty Ways
1988-01-01
Around the World in Eighty Ways
Overview: Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack the bags, Mavis is off on an around the world package trip leaving them all behind. However, when Dad finds out she has been joined by their hated next door neighbour long dead passions begin to stir. Blind, senile old Dad decides to chase his wife around the world...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Bush Christmas
1983-12-22
Bush Christmas
Overview: In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen the children embark on a dangerous and exciting adventure to get him back.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-22
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Take Away
2003-08-14
Take Away
Overview: Tony Stilano and Trev Spackneys both own, live over and work in adjoining take-away fish shops in Melbourne. Although they have fallen into a habitual rivalry based on a cause long forgotten, the pair unite when the multinational fast-food outlet "Burgies" unveils a new store directly opposite the twin fish & chips shops.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-14
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In a Savage Land
1999-10-21
In a Savage Land
Overview: Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-21
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The Man Who Sued God
2001-10-25
The Man Who Sued God
Overview: A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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Never Tell Me Never
1998-04-07
Never Tell Me Never
Overview: This is the true story of Janine Shepard, a world class skier faced with tragedy, being hit by a car and being told she will never walk again.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-07
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Mad Max: Fury Road
2015-05-13
Mad Max: Fury Road
Overview: An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-13
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A Man's Gotta Do
2004-07-08
A Man's Gotta Do
Overview: Eddy does what he has to do to give his family what they want. For the last 25 years, he has secretly moonlighted as a "standover" man, purely to provide his aspirational wife with her dream house and a privileged upbringing for his only daughter. Eddy finds it hard to express how he feels, especially now that his "little girl" is engaged and will soon be leaving the family home. Chantelle believes her emotionally blocked father has only two feelings "angry" and "very angry" and feels her father just doesn't understand her. Eddy is perplexed: "What's to understand?" Herein lies the problem. Over eager to get on the same wavelength as his daughter and recapture the closeness they once had, Eddy starts reading Chantelle's diary. In the process, more secrets than anyone was prepared for, begin to surface with devastating yet hilarious results. Eddy rides the storm and once the dust settles, all is well... for now.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-08
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Japanese Story
2003-08-30
Japanese Story
Overview: Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arrogant. Hiromitsu's view of her is not much better. Things go from bad to worse when they become stranded in one of the most remote regions on Earth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-30
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Evil Angels
1988-11-03
Evil Angels
Overview: Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-03
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Blackrock
1997-05-01
Blackrock
Overview: In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-01
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Strikebound
1984-09-20
Strikebound
Overview: Via the New York Times: "...reconstructs the true story of a coal miners' strike in the small town of Korumburra in the mid-30's... based on the real-life story of two remarkable characters, Wattie Doig, a miner who became a militant Communist activist, and his wife, Agnes, who progressed from staunch Presbyterianism to membership in the Salvation Army and, finally, to labor organization."
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-20
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Razorback
1984-04-19
Razorback
Overview: In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-19
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2024-05-22
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Overview: As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-22
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Last Cab to Darwin
2015-08-06
Last Cab to Darwin
Overview: Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-06
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The Road from Coorain
2002-03-03
The Road from Coorain
Overview: A young girl comes of age in the Australian bush amid natural disaster and family tragedy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-03
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Joh's Jury
1993-02-16
Joh's Jury
Overview: Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-16
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The Merger
2018-08-30
The Merger
Overview: A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-30
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The Highest Honour
1982-05-15
The Highest Honour
Overview: After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-15
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Grace Under Water
2014-11-01
Grace Under Water
Overview: Lou is losing the cold war with her stubborn and enigmatic stepdaughter Grace when an unexpected challenge arises from the depths of a warm, dreamy afternoon at the local pool.
Genres: Drama Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-01
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Frontier
2018-03-21
Frontier
Overview: Texas, 1848. Families are being forced off their land by the settlers who come to colonize this unpopulated state. A battle for the land and oil ensues.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-03-21
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A Matter Of Principle
2019-12-08
A Matter Of Principle
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-12-08
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Capone
1975-04-16
Capone
Overview: Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation. Capone rises through the ranks of Torrio's gang and eventually takes over. On top, he works to consolidate his power by eliminating his enemies, fixing elections to his advantage and getting rich. In his spare time, Capone courts the principled Iris Crawford.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-16
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Riley
2023-09-24
Riley
Overview: The life of a disciplined high school athlete begins to unravel when his queer identity competes against the idea of who he was supposed to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-24
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