Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
Acting
Hopkins doing understated vulnerability in a role nobody remembers.
Production
1960s Melbourne captured in warm, lived-in detail.
Director
Mark Joffe
Anthony Hopkins
Errol Wallace
Ben Mendelsohn
Carey
Alwyn Kurts
Mr. Ball
Bruno Lawrence
Robert, Carey's Father
John Walton
Jerry Finn
Rebecca Rigg
Cheryl Ball
Toni Collette
Wendy Robinson
Russell Crowe
Kim Barry
Angela Punch McGregor
Caroline Wallace
Dan Wyllie
Frank Fletcher
John Flaus
Gordon
Jeff Truman
Ron
Jillian Murray
Ophelia, Carey's Mom
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released as 'The Efficiency Expert' in some markets because distributors feared 'Spotswood' sounded too foreign.
This quietly predicted Australia's manufacturing collapse — made just before the 'recession we had to have' gutted similar factories nationwide.
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