Rotten
An underdeveloped film that requires all of [Collette's] ample skills merely to rise to the mediocre.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
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.
Director and cast
- Sue Brooks Director
- Toni Collette as Sandy Edwards
- Gotaro Tsunashima as Hiromitsu Tachibana
- Matthew Dyktynski as Bill Baird
- Lynette Curran as Mum
- Yumiko Tanaka as Yukiko Tachibana
- Kate Atkinson as Jackie
- Bill Young as Jimmy Smithers
- George Shevtsov as James
- Reg Evans as Bloke in Row Boat
- Justine Clarke as Jane
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
68%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Lots of pictures begin strongly only to lose their focus; this one gains momentum with every sequence -- ambivalent at first, we're firmly hooked by the final frame.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Tsunashima gives a deft performance in a role that starts out as caricature but becomes full-bodied. Collette commands the screen virtually the entire time.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
Starts off promisingly. Eventually, though, it collapses into melodrama.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
Fails to engage us in the lives of its characters because it never really introduces them.
Vic Vogler, Denver Post
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