Sometimes love isn't enough.
Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Nov 20199/10
***Exceptional drama about a detective in Sydney… and so much more*** "Lantana" is an Australian drama from 2001 about four couples in the Sydney area (where the film was shot). There are some important peripheral characters as well. The husband of the main couple is a detective going through a mid-life crisis (Anthony LaPaglia). His wife (Kerry Armstrong) knows something's wrong and is getting counseling. The marriage of her counselor (Barbara Hershey) is also troubled due to the death of their young daughter 18 months earlier. The woman the detective is having a fling with (Rachael Blake) lives next door to a couple whose marriage is the only solid relationship in the story (Vince Colosimo & Daniela Farinacci). Or is it? When one of these women turns up missing the counselor's husband becomes a suspect (Geoffrey Rush). The reason the film's called "Lantana" is because lantana is a tangled shrub common in Australia, which represents the entanglements of the lives of the characters. It also symbolizes marriage since lantana has a sweet but bitter smell: it's beautiful with its flowers, but has "stings"; its branches weave together in a complicated way and in the story a woman is ca
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Cast
- Anthony LaPagliaLeon Zat
- Geoffrey RushJohn Knox
- Barbara HersheyValerie Somers
- Kerry ArmstrongSonja Zat
- Rachael BlakeJane O'May
- Vince ColosimoNick
- Russell DykstraMichael
- Daniela FarinacciPaula D'Amato
- Peter PhelpsPatrick Phelan
- Leah PurcellClaudia Wiss
Crew
- Ray LawrenceDirector
- Andrew BovellScreenplay
- Mandy WalkerDirector of Photography
- Shane O'MaraOriginal Music Composer
- Steve HadleyOriginal Music Composer
- Bruce HaymesOriginal Music Composer
- Karl SoderstenEditor
- Jan ChapmanProducer
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