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Soft Fruit (1999)

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Reviews Counted: 14

Fresh: 9

Rotten:5

Average Rating: 6.2/10

Consensus: Critics say that while Soft Fruit might be difficult to watch -- dealing as it is with terminal illness -- it is an emotionally genuine, warm film. The ensemble cast are also praised for their excellent portrayals of a family.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] Sexuality, nudity, language and drug content.

Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Soft Fruit is the story of three bossy sisters and their brother who come home to steel-town Port Kembla, from America, Sydney and jail. It's the first time in eight years they've been under the... Soft Fruit is the story of three bossy sisters and their brother who come home to steel-town Port Kembla, from America, Sydney and jail. It's the first time in eight years they've been under the same roof and they've come to nurse their beloved mother Patsy through her last weeks.

First, the home turf has to be re-negotiated with their father, Vic. He would rather have Patsy's illness to himself than face the fruit of his loins who've returned in all his appalling likeness. In particular he can't stomach the sight of his son, Bo, and banishes him to live in the shed.

Bo is out on parole. He entertains his dear old ma with readings from a Jackie Kennedy biog. and teaches her a thing or two about the limitations of a life lived in moderation. The sisters, Josie, Nadia and Vera settle into their old single beds and crash diets, hardly bearing to be together after all these years and hardly bearing to be apart. They play nursies -- Florence Nightingales from hell. Each of them is sure that she alone can imbue Patsy's last weeks with meaning. But Patsy doesn't care to be meaningful, she wants flights of fancy and fun.

As tension mounts between Bo and his father, Bo becomes Patsy's guide on surreal day trips, enthusiastically sharing her morphine euphoria.

In the end, Patsy's greatest wish is for peace...peace above all...but of course peace isn't part of this family's gene pool. [More]

Starring: Jeanie Drynan, Linal Haft, Genevieve Lemon, Sacha Horler

Starring: Jeanie Drynan, Linal Haft, Genevieve Lemon, Sacha Horler, Alicia Talbot, Russell Dykstra

Director: Christina Andreef

Director: Christina Andreef
Screenwriter: Christina Andreef
Producer: Helen Bowden

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05/17/03
Greg Muskewitz
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An absolute delight. Heartfelt and surprising from the first minute, no beter film has left Australian shores since Romper Stomper. And yes, I'm including Shine in that.

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02/14/01
Christopher Null
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Soft Fruit belongs ... to the divine Ms. Drynan, who plays a dying, unfulfilled, ordinary woman without embellishment or overstatement but with mischievous reserve and surprising sensuality.

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A.O. Scott
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The outcome is clear from the beginning. But getting there proves a rare revelation.

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Andrea C. Basora
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It has its own oddball virtues.

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Andy Klein
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Andreef has expertly captured family laughter.

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Annlee Ellingson
Boxoffice Magazine

Not every quirky family story deserves attention, but Soft Fruit stands out.

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Eric Monder
Film Journal International

Frequent indulgences in sentiment and caricature.

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Gene Seymour
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It hurls its humanity at you like rotten tomatoes.

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Jessica Winter
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It's not especially well-written: It shifts uneasily between grotesque humor and pathos.

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Jonathan Foreman
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Refreshing!

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