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The Square
Why this pick
A sun-baked Australian crime tragedy with the same creeping sense of entrapment, morally compromised loyalties, and violence erupting from seemingly ordinary domestic spaces.
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MOVIE2010 1h 53m AUS
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
After his mother drug overdose, 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody (James Frecheville) asks his estranged grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody (Jacki Weaver), for help, and she invites him to move in with her. Smurf is the affectionate matriarch of a Melbourne crime family that uses her home as a base. Her home is also being watched by cops who are looking for the oldest son, Andrew "Pope" Cody (Ben Mendelsohn), who is in hiding. The volatile middle brother, Craig (Sullivan Stapleton), deals drugs successfully enough to have bought the house for his mother. The youngest brother, Darren (Luke Ford), follows the lead of his siblings, while family friend "Baz" (Joel Edgerton) leads the gang, which specializes in armed robbery.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
James Frecheville
Joshua 'J' Cody
Ben Mendelsohn
Andrew 'Pope' Cody
Daniel Wyllie
Ezra White
Laura Wheelwright
Nicky Henry
Mirrah Foulkes
Catherine Brown
Justin Rosniak
Detective Randall Roache
Clayton Jacobson
Gus Emery
Josh Helman
Const. Peter Simmons