Rotten
Has taken almost two years to reach the UK; you'd be forgiven for thinking it was far longer, given its sub-Joseph Losey pretensions and doily-like styling.
Guy Lodge, Time Out
Overview
In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel princess, convene at her deathbed. They come to make sure they can leave Australia with their hefty inheritance.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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58%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Sometimes a feast of acting isn't enough.
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
A brilliantly acted semi-dud.
David Denby, New Yorker
Rotten
Too often the film's moods switch unsuccessfully between the abruptly serious and the broadly bizarre.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Fresh
Rush and Davis are two of the best actors in the business, and their brittle gamesmanship and rue holds the screen. But the film is disappointingly lackluster -- a mild squall instead of a storm.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
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