The Dressmaker (2016)
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Critic Consensus: The Dressmaker boasts a strong central performance by Kate Winslet and a captivating array of narrative weirdness -- all of which may or may not be a comfortable fit with viewers.
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Cast
as Myrtle 'Tilly' Dunnage
as Teddy McSwiney
as Sergeant Farrat
as Gertrude 'Trudy' Pratt
as Molly Dunnage
as Elsbeth
as Irma Almanac
as Alvin Pratt
as Beulah Harridiene
as Muriel Pratt
as William Beaumont
as Barney McSwiney
as Percival Almanac
as Una Pleasance
as Prudence
as Marigold Pettyman
as Evan Pettyman
as Young Gertrude
as Beatrix
as Mae McSwiney
as Kerry Fox
as Rebecca Gibney
as Lois Pickett
as Photographer
as Septimus
as Stewart Pettyman
as Young Tilly
as Reginald Blood
as Ancient Drover
as Nancy Pickett
as Stan Lehman
as Ed McSwiney
as Elizabeth McSwiney
as Margaret McSwiney
as Fashionable Relative
as Detective
as Mrs. Tobin
as Mrs. Wood
as Theatre Manager
as Ticket Collector
as Young Molly
as Theatre Patron
as Young Nancy
as Theatre Patron
as Doctor
as Young Barney
as Boy in Wheat
as Singer
as Drummer
as Saxophone Player
as Piano Player/Organist
as Winyerp Footballer
as Winyerp Footballer
as Dungatar Footballer
as Dungatar Footballer
as Football Fan
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Critic Reviews for The Dressmaker
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The best thing about The Dressmaker is, of course, Kate Winslet. The plot is over-complicated and includes a wedding, a funeral, an ambitious death count, drugs and alcohol, dueling dressmakers, and a grand finale theatrical extravaganza.
There's plenty to admire here, especially if your taste is tailored to the unusual.
Whatever were they smoking?
Kate Winslet can do anything ... except save this movie from quirky overkill.
The film has so many moodswings that watching it induces whiplash, and just about everybody in it, from Winslet on down to Judy Davis, playing the dressmaker's crotchety mother, flagrantly overdoes it.
The second Winslet sets her sewing machine on the ground and snarls, "I'm back, you bastards," we're delighted to hear we're in for something fun.
Audience Reviews for The Dressmaker
Could have gone either way with this one, but glad I stuck with it. Very original, and I loved all the beautiful dresses.
Super Reviewer
Unclear about what it wants to be, Dressmaker wavers thematically between wronged-youth-returns-to-better-backward-town redemptive or the ever popular let's-get-the-mongoloids-that-got-us revenge classic (always a popular favorite). It's these jarring shifts in perspective that make the piece hard to accept and one feels a touch manic by the ending. Before that though there are pieces that threaten beauty ... were they left alone.
Super Reviewer
This was exceedingly surprising and turned out to be a great film. A typical mother-daughter revenge story that is both bittersweet and funny, often very funny at times. Definitely better than I thought it would be in terms of Australian films but when it is written by Paul 'Crocodile Dundee' Hogan you know it will be better than most.
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