John Duigan

John Duigan
Total Credits at Criticker: 20 (Director), 13 (Writer)
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Head in the Clouds
In a time torn apart by hatred and violence, two lifelong lovers are forced to choose between passion and personal convictions, their fate intertwined with the painful history of a world at war. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Molly
Molly McKay (Shue) is a mentally challenged young woman whose genius is unleashed after she undergoes a program of highly experimental treatments. (MGM)
Sirens
When a painting is termed blasphemous, a young minister and his wife visit the artist... and the three sexually playful models living with him. (imdb)
Flirting
Danny has been sent to boarding school, in this sequal to The Year My Voice Broke. (imdb)
Lawn Dogs
Newly arrived in an up-market housing development, quiet ten-year-old Devon doesn't quite fit in. Ignoring the urgings of her social-climbing father, Devon chooses the company of Trent, who mows the estate's lawns, rather than of the girls her own age (imdb)
Paranoid
The stressed top model Chloe (Jessica Alba) is invited by an acquaintance to a dinner party with some friends of his in a house far from London... (imdb)
The Parole Officer
A failed parole officer framed for murder must enlist the help of his former clients to clear his name. (imdb)
Romero
In El Salvador, the new bishop speaks out against the death squads and the terror campaign the government is using in an attempt to crush the guerilla war that is being waged against them. This is seen as disloyality and the number of priests attacked goes up and even churches are shut down by the government. Based on a true story, Romero was assassinated in March, 1980. (imdb)
The Journey of August King
The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King. (imdb)
Wide Sargasso Sea
A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood and her mother. Slowly, this secret begins to erode this perfect relationship and, perhaps, her mother's story will begin again...with her. (imdb)
The Leading Man
Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary, a beautiful, fiesty young actress, and is preparing to desert his perfect family, his wife Elena and three lively children. His intolerable situation is further complicated when Humphrey casts Hilary as one of the leads in 'The Hit Man'. (imdb)
The Year My Voice Broke
During the year 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Austrailia watches painfully as his best friend and first love, an older girl, blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, setting off a chain of events that irreversibly changes the lives of everyone involved. (imdb)
Mouth to Mouth
Four young kids in late 70's Melbourne, Australia. They're broke and in love, and we get to follow their story.
The Firm Man
A man is promoted to work for the all-mysterious and revered firm, which turns out to be populated by madmen. His boss talks about vegetables in incomprehensible ways and acts like a cat, he is given the day off on his first day, then given assignments which consists of interacting with two odd men dressed in black, and yellow hats, that keep popping up chasing him in airplanes or tractors to play bizarre games and make him deliver meaningless messages and fulfill pointless missions. (The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre)
Room to Move
Carol (Nicole Kidman) is a top runner, coached by her father day and night. Then she sees Angie, the punk new girl, dancing magnificently and alone. The two become friends and Carol begins to rebel, but the all-imporant race is coming up! (imdb)
Far East
An Australian Vietnam War veteran runs a sleazy bar in the Philippines. His old flame enters his life again asking for help since her husband, an investigative journalist is prosecuted by the junta for discovering too much.
Vietnam
Vietnam (1987) - TV Mini-Series
This 10 part series follows a family affected by the Vietnam war, Nicole Kidman plays a young woman who becomes an anti war activist, when she sees what is happening in Vietnam after the Australians got involved. Shows real footage of the Vietnam during war time and shows the lack of human rights shown towards the Vietnamese. (imdb)
Dimboola
A London newsman spends a wild weekend in Australia at a bride's tea party and a groom's stag party.
Winter of Our Dreams
When a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of his former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and meets her friend, a prostitute. They hook up, but when she finds her friends diary, she discovers she's repeating her mistakes. (imdb)
Careless Love
CARELESS LOVE tells the story of Linh, a Vietnamese Australian university student who secretly starts part-time work as an escort. She develops a close rapport with one of her clients, an enigmatic American art dealer, who books her on a regular basis. For a time she manages to keep her two lives in separate compartments. But when she falls for a fellow student her worlds collide and things get complicated. (imdb)