Penne Hackforth-Jones
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Biography: Penne Hackforth-Jones (August 5, 1949 – May 17, 2013) was an American-born Australian actress and biographer. Hackforth-Jones lived with her family in England before relocating to Australia in 1964. She gratuated National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1968. In 1969, Hackforth-Jones made her first credited on-screen appearance in the Australian television series Riptide, and later appeared in such Australian television series. Penne Hackforth-Jones died at the age of 64 after battling lung cancer. She never married, and was survived by her three sisters.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Birthday: August 05, 1943
Deathday: May 17, 2013
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Gender: Female
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Black and White
Overview: Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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Alvin Purple
Overview: Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by the psychiatrists as a gigolo to treat other patients instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-20
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Alvin Rides Again
Overview: Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-16
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Running on Empty
Overview: Mike loves his fast cars and his hot women. When he fancies the girlfriend of the local street racing king, Fox, he gets way in over his head in racing for his girl, his money and his life. Through racing, sex, nightclubs and small road trips the film depicts what it was like to be a teenager in Australia in the 1980's.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-05
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The Tree
Overview: The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, eight-year-old Simone denies this reality. She is persuaded that her father still lives in the giant fig tree growing near their house and speaks to her through its leaves. But the tree becomes more and more invasive and threatens the house. It must be felled. Of course, Simone won't allow it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-03
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Purple Flowers
Overview: Jack likes Jill. Jill likes Jack. Two teenagers dealing with love, lust and death. A short film written and directed by Julian Ryan, stars Christian Byers and Airlie Dodds in the two main roles
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-08
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Down the Wind
Overview: A young photographer Simon Jess (David Cameron) is given an assignment to shoot some backgrounds for a fashion display in the Snowy Mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-28
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We've All Been There
Overview: Jess has to come up with $800 or lose her house. A flat tyre leaves Joan stranded in the middle of nowhere. Matt needs a job. All these stories are brought together as what goes around comes around and they impact each other in a way they couldn't imagine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-02-17
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Kokoda Crescent
Overview: The grandson of a war veteran is found dead from an overdose of heroin. He and his old army buddies swing into action and stake out the drug dealer, only to discover a web of police corruption surrounding the drug dealing. Given police complicity in the matter, they take the law into their own hands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-01
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Time's Raging
Overview: A 38-year-old woman feels her biological clock is ticking and is torn between her ex and a younger lover.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-22
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Libido
Overview: Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-06
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The Adventures of Sam: Search for the Dragon
Overview: A sea-faring boy named Sam Donahue goes on an adventure around the world while trying to find his brother Tom and discovers new worlds and different cultures.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Overview: The classic fictional tale of Little Nell and her grandfather, animated by Burbank Films Australia.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Don't Call Me Girlie
Overview: The untold story of Australia's movie heroines - on and off the screen.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-01
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Paradise Road
Overview: A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-11
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Bitter & Twisted
Overview: A family drifts down a spiral of self-destruction and depression in the years following the death of their eldest son. Can they come to terms with what's happened before everything falls apart?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-28
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The Journalist
Overview: Comedy about a womanizing journalist on a Sydney newspaper who confronts job problems and impotence in the context of Australian media and politics of the 1970's. A somewhat lesser Australian film comparable to the American film Shampoo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-15
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Image of Death
Overview: Image of Death is a 1978 Australian TV movie about a woman who likes to live off other people's money.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Muriel's Wedding
Overview: A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-29
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Diana & Me
Overview: Australian Diana Spencer wins a competition in a women's magazine, and as a prize gets a trip for two to London, where she wants to meet her idol and namesake, Princess Diana. She goes there with her fiance, Mark, but during the garden party the Princess plans to attend, things get mixed up and Aussie Diana gets arrested with Paparazzi photographer Rob. Diana really wants to meet the Princess and follows Rob as he searches for Princess Di to take some photos.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-04
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After Marcuse
Overview: A woman artist's affair with a younger man jeopardises her marriage, her career and her child's future. He personifies the nihilistic philosophy of Albert Marcuse and tries to manipulate her. Her dependence on him forces her to reassess all the values of her art and life. We observe these events at three levels; a woman writer uses them as the basis of a play and in the process reveals parallels in her own experience.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Irresistible Force
Overview: A police sergeant is hoping for a few quiet weeks before his impending retirement, but his plans are scuppered when he is joined by an over-enthusiastic rookie partner who is assigned to him after failing her field test. To make matters worse, trouble looms when a group of white supremacists hold up a local shopping centre.
Genres: Action Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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