Sweetie
Cast: Geneviève Lemon (Dawn aka Sweetie), Karen Colston (Kay), Tom Lycos (Louis), Jon Darling (Gordon), Dorothy Barry (Flo), Michael Lake (Bob), Andre Pataczek (Clayton), Jean Hadgraft (Mrs. Schneller), Paul Livingston (Teddy Schneller), Louise Fox (Cheryl), Ann Merchant (Paula), Robyn Frank (Ruth (as Robin Frank)), Bronwyn Morgan (Sue), Sean Fennell (Boy clerk), Sean Callinan (Simboo), Norm Galton (Notary), Warren Hensley (Man handshaker), Regina Heilmann (Girl), Charles Abbott (Meditation teacher), Diana Armer (Melony), Barbara Middleton (Clayton's mom), Emma Jane Fowler (Little Sweetie (as Emma Fowler)), Irene Curtis (Mandy), Ken Porter (Lead Jackaroo), John F. Hughes (Lead Jackaroo), Alan Close (Lead Jackaroo), Marc Colombani (Lead Jackaroo), Geoff Shera (Lead Jackaroo), Andrew Traucki (Lead Jackaroo), Norman Phillips (Nosey Neighbour), Shirley Sheppard (Nosey Neighbour), Ben Cochrane (Boy in Tree), Kristoffer Pershouse (Boy in Tree), Larry Brand (Sweetie's Funeral), Cedric McLaughlan (Sweetie's Funeral), Doug Ramsey (Sweetie's Funeral), Bruce Currie (Man with a Saw)
Genre: Drama
Keywords: Dysfunctional Family, Favorite Sibling, Australia, Family Relationships, Transcendental Meditation, Independent Film
Summary: Explores sisters, in their twenties, their parents, and family dysfunctions. Kay is gangly and slightly askew, consulting a fortune teller and then falling in love with a man because of a mole on his face and a lock of hair; then, falling out of love when he plants a tree in their yard. Sweetie is plump, imperious, self-centered, and seriously mentally ill. The parents see none of the illness, seeing only their cute child. Kay mainly feels exasperation at her sister's impositions. Slowly, the film exposes how the roots of Sweetie's illness have choked Kay's own development. Can she be released?
Release Date: Sunday, September 10, 1989
Gross: $938,065
Rating: 6.9
Votes: 934