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Kiss or Kill is a film of genre Drama directed by Bill Bennett released in USA on 14 november 1997 with Frances O'Connor
Kiss or Kill (1997)
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Add to a movie listKiss or Kill is a 1997 Australian thriller about two lovers and fugitives from the law who are pursued across the Australian Outback. The film was written and directed by Bill Bennett, and stars Frances O'Connor and Matt Day.
"After a robbery scam that goes bad, lovers Nikki and Al take off into the Australian outback, pursued by the police and a malevolent footballer named Zipper Doyle, and meet a number of offbeat characters." (Cover notes, DVD release)
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Kiss or Kill opens with a woman off camera explaining how she has difficulty trusting people, especially men, because of things she saw when she was young. This comment introduces a prologue in which a little girl watches helplessly as a man, presumably her father, appears at the door, douses her mother with petrol and sets her alight.Actors
Frances O'Connor
(Nikki Davies)
Matt Day
(Al Fletcher)
Andrew Gilbert
(Detective Crean)
Chris Haywood
(Detective Hummer)
Max Cullen
(Stan)
Barry Otto
(Adler Jones)
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