Shame

1988 · Movie · 94 min. · Australia

Drama

Asta Cadell, a lawyer traveling through the Australian Outback on holiday, stops in a small Western Australian town after her motorcycle breaks down and shacks up with Tim Curtis, the local mechanic, while fixing it. She then becomes involved in helping Curtis' teenage daughter, Lizzie, who has been recently date-raped by Danny Fiske, the son of a wealthy, well-known citizen and his gang. Asta persuades Lizzie to press charges against Danny, but the local population becomes determined to keep the incident a secret at any cost and soon Asta and the Curtis family's lives are in danger.

Direction Steve Jodrell

Cast Deborra-Lee Furness · Tony Barry · Simone Buchanan · Gillian Jones · Peter Aanensen · Margaret Ford · David Franklin · Bill McCluskey · Allison Taylor · Phillip Dean · Stig Wemyss · Douglas Walker · Matthew Quartermaine · Matt Hayden · Faith Clayton · Mandy Henning · Julie Hudspeth · Pat Skevington · Robert Luobikis · Jeremy Groves · Dean Daley-Jones · Darren Taylor · Libby Stone · Patricia Cote · Tiffany Evans · Robert Faggetter · Eileen Colocott · Karen Hobson · Dickon Oxenburgh · Kerri Lemus · Colin McEwan · Leslie Wright · Marian Rawlings · Don Halbert · Ann Goodale · Sarissa White