''Clubland'', internationally known as ''Introducing the Dwights'', is a 2007
Australia
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n
comedy-drama film
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, directed by
Cherie Nowlan
Cherie Nowlan (born Singleton, New South Wales, Australia) ,
written by Keith Thompson, and starring Oscar nominee
Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn (''née'' Bottle; 20 February 1946) is an English actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and two Academy Award nominations.
Blethyn ...
and
Emma Booth. The film was nominated for eleven
AFI awards, winning the award for best supporting actress for
Emma Booth.
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''Cherie Nowlan''. Retrieved 14 March 2015. It sold to
Warner Independent Pictures
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for $4.1 million,
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NOWLAN, CHERIE - CLUBLAND''. (28 June 2007) Retrieved 14 March 2015. after debuting at
Sundance Film Festival
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,
where it gained standing ovations.
The film opened in the U.S. on
4 July holiday weekend, the first Australian film ever to do so.
Plot
Life for shy 21-year-old Tim Maitland is not always smooth sailing. His mum Jean is a cafeteria worker by day who hits the comedy club circuit by night, while his dad John is busy trying to recapture his fifteen minutes of fame from when he was a country and western singer back in 1975. But when the feisty beautiful Jill walks into Tim's life, things seem to be looking up. Unfortunately, there's another woman in Tim's life, one who will stand between him and the perfect romance: his mother.
Cast
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Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn (''née'' Bottle; 20 February 1946) is an English actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and two Academy Award nominations.
Blethyn ...
— Jean Dwight
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Khan Chittenden — Tim Maitland
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Emma Booth — Jill
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Richard Wilson — Mark
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Philip Quast
Philip Mark Quast (born 30 July 1957) is an Australian actor and singer. He has won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical three times, making him the first actor to have three wins in that category.
He is perhaps best known ...
— Ronnie Stubbs
*
Frankie J. Holden
Frankie J. Holden (born Peter Brian; 18 December 1952) , also known as Frank Holden, is an Australian singer, actor and TV presenter. In the 1970s, he fronted Ol' 55 (band), Ol' 55, which had a hit with "On the Prowl" from their debut album, ...
— John Maitland
*
Rebecca Gibney
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— Lana
*
Katie Wall
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Filmography
Film
Television
External links
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Katie Wall at Channel Nine's Underbelly Site
Katie Wall's first novel will be published by Scribe in M ...
— Kelly
Box office
''Clubland'' grossed $1.5 million at the box office in Australia.
Film Victoria
''Australian Films at the Australian Box Office''. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
See also
* Cinema of Australia
The cinema of Australia had its beginnings with the 1906 production of ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'', arguably the world's first feature film. Since then, Australian crews have produced many films, a number of which have received internati ...
References
External links
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Goalpost Pictures WebsiteClubland at the National Film and Sound Archive
'Introducing the Dwights' Trailer
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2000s coming-of-age comedy-drama films
2007 films
Australian coming-of-age comedy-drama films
2007 comedy-drama films
Films directed by Cherie Nowlan
2000s English-language films