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Lantana is a Australien film of genre Drama directed by Ray Lawrence released in USA on 8 march 2002 with Anthony LaPaglia
Lantana (2001)
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Add to a movie listLantana is a 2001 Australian film, directed by Ray Lawrence and starring Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Armstrong, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey. It is based on the play Speaking In Tongues by Andrew Bovell, which premiered at Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company. The film won seven AACTA Awards including Best Film and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Lantana is set in suburban Sydney and focuses on the complex relationships between the characters in the film. The central event of the film is the disappearance and death of a woman whose body is shown at the start of the film, but whose identity is not revealed until later. The film's name derives from the plant Lantana, a weed prevalent in suburban Sydney.
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An unknown woman's body is seen caught in the lantana bush, missing a shoe.Actors
Anthony LaPaglia
(Leon Zat)
Geoffrey Rush
(John Knox)
Barbara Hershey
(Valerie Somers)
Kerry Armstrong
(Sonja Zat)
Rachael Blake
(Jane O'May)
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