Noni Hazlehurst
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Biography: Noni Hazlehurst (born Leonie Hazlehurst) is an Australian stage, television, and film actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Birthday: August 17, 1953
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Gender: Female
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Candy
Overview: A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-25
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Sting
Overview: After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the truth about her pet and fight for her family's survival.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-12
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Little Fish
Overview: Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-19
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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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Fatty Finn
Overview: The 10-year-old Hubert Finn, known as "Fatty", lived in poor conditions in Australia in the 1930s. He and his friends stick together as they often have to defend themselves against the villain Bomer and his gang. Fatty wants a detector radio, but can't afford it. He has to raise money for it within a week, otherwise he won't get the radio ...
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-18
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Play School: Nursery Rhymes
Overview: For over 30 years, Play School has been entertaining and teaching thousands of young Australians with its innovative and creative program style. Encouraging participation through a variety of interactive activities, Play School has without a doubt become an integral part of growing up. Presented by well-loved Play School hosts such as Noni Hazlehurst, Justine Clarke, Deborah Mailman and Rhys Muldoon, this special 100-minute DVD is jam-packed with over 30 favourite nursery rhymes, games to play, four segments on things to make and do, and nine animations including "Im a Little Teapot" and "This Little Piggy". Plus, the DVD contains four lovely stories and is also subtitled for the hearing impaired. Considered to be the most successful regular television program for pre-school children in the country, Play School is sure to be adored by a whole new generation of pre-schoolers. If there's a preschooler in your household, this is one DVD you won't want to miss!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-03
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Monkey Grip
Overview: Nora is a single mother who wants to live the life of an artist, as do her friends -- a group of Melbourne writers, actors and musicians. But when she's drawn into a passionate affair with a heroin addict, Nora struggles to maintain control of her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-17
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The Mule
Overview: In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-10
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The Broken Shore
Overview: An evocative crime thriller that captures the chilling action and sharp wit of Peter Temple's acclaimed novel The Broken Shore. In this gripping adaptation, Detective Joe Cashin uncovers a web of lies, betrayal and police corruption in a small coastal town where tensions are at boiling point and the shocking face behind the community's respectable mask is slowly unveiled.
Genres: Crime TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-15
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Fran
Overview: Fran, a single mother, is selflessly devoted to her children. But something is lacking in her life, and that something is the love of a man her own age. Her efforts to juggle a love life with her home life are largely unsuccessful.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-21
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Waiting
Overview: Friends meet at a farm house to await the birth of a baby.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-25
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Australian Dream
Overview: Dorothy is living out the Australian dream and has fantasies to escape the boredom. She rebels against her expected role and gets involved with selling sex aids to housewives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-02
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Stations
Overview: Set in working class Brisbane in 1953, Stations is an evocative short drama featuring Noni Hazelhurst as a young woman coning to terms with her romantic illusions. “A sensual piting of black-and-white social realism against memory-hazed fantasy sequences . . . It is a film of immediate and engaging feel for human weakness and strength”
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-11
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Still Twisted
Overview: Four unsuspecting victims are hurled into a twisted and altered reality: ... a young woman tries to flee a hit-and-run with destiny... an ex-ballroom champion hides a mysterious secret from the past in his bedroom... a routine job for a hitman takes an unusual turn... and a woman finds herself trapped in a train station with a bizarre railway clerk. All four soon discover that their preconceived notions of reality couldn't be further from the truth.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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For Love or Money
Overview: Using almost totally historical material, For Love or Money encompasses the role of Australian women in both paid and unpaid work, over a 200 year period.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-28
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The Safe House
Overview: It's the summer of 1954 and seven-year-old Lee Whitmore and her friends are drifting through the holidays, exploring their quiet suburban neighbourhood where nothing ever seems to happen... until the day mysterious strangers move in with the old lady next door. No one explains the odd comings and goings, the big black cars, the men in suits and hats, the overheard snippets of conversation, but that doesn't stop the children from imagining. The Safe House is a half-hour animation based on a true story - a young girl's innocent perspective of one of the most talked about moments in Australia's history - the real-life spy drama known as the Petrov Affair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-15
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A Parachute Falling in Siberia
Overview: A Parachute Falling in Siberia parallels the impending parting of a middle-aged couple facing terminal breast cancer with two Russian cosmonauts preparing to separate after hundreds of days in orbit locked aboard the MIR space station. How do you spend your final moments? How do you say goodbye?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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The Face of Birth
Overview: An inspiring look at how wonderful birth can be when your right to choose how, where and with whom you give birth is respected & protected. Every woman has the right to be informed about their options in childbirth. Through an exploration of home birth, this 87 min film looks at what natural, physiological childbirth really is. Is birth a medical emergency waiting to happen or a profound, natural and physiological event that women are designed for? The most comprehensive film ever made on home birth and a voice of reason in the debate, The Face of Birth outlines the importance of education in birthing and the right of a woman to choose the best and safest birth method for her and her baby.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-01
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Truth
Overview: As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a sitting U.S. President’s military service. But when allegations come pouring in, sources change their stories, document authenticity is questioned, and the casualties begin to mount.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-16
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Stepfather of the Bride
Overview: This is the story of a typical contemporary Australian family. Skye is getting married to Lachlan. They have to tell her mother, stepfather, father, step mother, his father, his new wife, his mother and her girlfriend. Not counting grandparents, aunt and friends. They live with Skye's stepfathers son and best mate who is in love with Skye.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-12
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Ladies in Black
Overview: Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of department store employees in 1959 Sydney.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-18
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June Again
Overview: A woman experiences a medical miracle, after which she has only a few days to bring together her estranged children, save the family's wallpaper business and rekindle an old flame.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-06
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Waterfront
Overview: Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Long Story Short
Overview: Teddy wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that he's jumped forward a year in his life to his first anniversary. Trapped in an endless cycle of time jumps, transported another year ahead every few minutes, he is faced with a race against time as his life crumbles around him.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-11
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Clowning Around
Overview: Follows a boy who realizes there is more to being a clown, than just clowning around.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-26
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Curtin
Overview: 1941. A country in crisis. A new man in power. Leadership demands and personal demons are set to collide. The story of John Curtin as he faces his first six months as Prime Minister, confronting in quick succession, the tragedy of Pearl Harbour, the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and a furious battle with Churchill over the deployment of Australian troops. This is a raw and intimate story of a driven and inspirational leader - a man who struggles to battle his own personal demons while serving and protecting a country at war.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-21
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