Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Snowtown murders [videorecording] / IFC Midnight ; Screen Australia and WARP Films Austraila present ; in association with Film Victoria...[et al.] ; story by Shaun Grant, Justin Kurzel ; written by Shaun Grant ; producers Anna McLeish, Sarah Shaw ; director Justin Kurzel.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

New York : IFC Films : Distributed by MPI Home Video, c2012.

Description:

1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Based on horrifying crimes discovered in Snowtown, Australia in 1999. The film follows a mother raising her three boys in a poor suburb. She takes up with a new man, hoping for security but instead welcoming a vicious predator into her home. An uncompromising look at the alarming circumstances that led to the notorious crimes.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Mass murder -- Australia -- Snowtown (S. Aust.) -- Drama.

Teenage boys -- Australia -- Snowtown (S. Aust.) -- Drama.

Single mothers -- Australia -- Snowtown (S. Aust.) -- Drama.

Asesinato -- Australia -- Teatro.

Muchachos adolescentes -- Australia -- Teatro.

Madres solteras -- Australia -- Teatro.

Horror films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Kurzel, Justin.

Grant, Shaun.

McLeish, Anna, 1973.

Shaw, Sarah (Film producer)

Pittaway, Lucas.

Henshall, Daniel, 1983-

Harris, Louise.

Groves, Anthony.

Viergever, Aaron.

Walker, David.

Marshall, Debi. tKilling for pleasure.

McGarry, Andrew. Snowtown murders.

IFC Midnight (Firm)

IFC Films.

Screen Australia.

Warp Films.

Film Victoria.

MPI Home Video (Firm)

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2010.

Inspired by the books "Killing for Pleasure" by Debi Marshall and "The Snowtown Murders" by Andrew McGarry.

Bonus features: Deleted scenes with audio commentary ; feature commentary with director ; original cast footage ; the Snowtown crimes ; interviews ; trailer.

Composer, Jed Kurzel ; editor, Veronika Jenet ; cinematographer, Adam Arkapaw.

Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris, Anthony Groves, Aaron Viergever, David Walker.

DVD, NTSC region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.

English dialogue; English or Spanish subtitles, English subtitles for the deaf or hard-of-hearing.

Special Jury Prize, Cannes' Critics Week.

ISBN:

0788615858

9780788615856

Publisher Number:

9571

IFC9571

Other Number:

797017371

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

330380

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Snowtown

Medium:

[videorecording]