Sweetie

'Most movies slide right through our minds without hitting anything. This one screams and shouts every step of the way.' – The Chicago Sun-Times
'A movie quite unlike any other you're likely to see. Sweetie is an original.' – The New York Times

Oscar-winning director Jane Campion's stunning debut feature is a feast of colourful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters. Tough and tender, Sweetie (Jane Campion, 1989) heralded the emergence of this gifted director as well as the breakthrough of Antipodean cinema, which would take the international film world by storm in the 1990s.

Kay and Sweetie are sisters, although Kay wishes they weren't. Kay is shy, superstitious and sexually repressed; Sweetie is loud, slovenly and quite possibly mentally ill. Crashing her way into Kay's life with a junkie boyfriend in tow, Sweetie manages to disrupt Kay's attempts to live a normal life with her new boyfriend Louis and expose the rotten roots of the entire family.

Sweetie garnered four nominations at the AFI Awards 1989, winning the award for Best Original Screenplay. Jane Campion is only the second woman ever to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar.

Special features on this DVD include a new, restored high-definition digital transfer, a new Dolby digital 5.1 soundtrack, and audio commentary featuring Jane Campion, director of photography Sally Bongers and screenwriter Gerard Lee.