Waiting at the Royal is a 2000 Australian drama film starring Catherine McClements, Noni Hazlehurst, Josephine Byrnes and Jo Kennedy. It is about four women from very different backgrounds sharing a maternity ward.
, 1h38 ActorsNoni Hazlehurst, Alan Fletcher, Danny Adcock, Colin McEwan Rating63% Fran (Noni Hazlehurst) is a likeably vivacious but irresponsible mother of three children, each from a different relationship. She is a product of the welfare system and several foster homes, and of an alcoholic mother and a father she never knew. Passionate about protecting her children from the community welfare authorities, whom she paints as the enemy, she nevertheless fails to do so.
, 1h40 Directed byGeorge Ogilvie ThemesSeafaring films, Transport films ActorsBryan Brown, Rebecca Smart, Noni Hazlehurst, Ray Meagher Rating74% The plot revolves around an itinerant rural worker and fighter named Macauley —sometimes described as a “swagman” or “swaggie” who unexpectedly finds himself taking responsibility for his child. The film contrasts the harshness of Australian masculinity with a parent-child relationship.
, 1h45 OriginAustralie GenresDrama, Comedy ThemesSports films, Association football films ActorsGarry McDonald, Catherine McClements, Briony Williams, Peter Douglas Rating69% Garry McDonald plays Ollie, a grumpy alcoholic workshop supervisor at a shelter called Saltmarsh. He hires Pat (Brian Vriends), a school teacher, to develop an experimental fitness program for the intellectually disabled young adults in the shelter. Pat teaches P.E and decides to try to get them involved in soccer, with some interesting results. Jill is Ollie's social worker, who Ollie calls 'the bitch'.
, 1h31 Directed byMaurice Murphy GenresComedy, Fantasy ActorsBen Oxenbould, Rebecca Rigg, Martin Lewis, Bert Newton, Robert Hughes, Noni Hazlehurst Rating65% Set in inner-city Woolloomooloo in Sydney, New South Wales in 1930, the neighbourhood nice guys are led by Fatty (real name Hubert Finn), an ambitious 10-year-old with an eye for making a quid. From shady frog jumping contests to a fixed goat race, Fatty uses his enterprise to raise enough money to buy a crystal set (radio without a separate power supply) that's worth seventeen shillings & sixpence (17/6), more than his Dad earns in a year. Bruiser Murphy the bully and his gang try to stop him. Fatty uses his brains against his enemies' brawn to eventually triumph.