Three people discover jealousy and larceny are a dangerous combination in this tense drama. John (Bryan Brown) is a veteran insurance investigator who succumbs to temptation and veers towards the wrong side of the law. With the help of novice con man Ben (Tom Long), John hatches a scheme to substantiate false claims by taking a percentage of several questionable claims his firm has settled for a fraction of their usual worth. John and Ben are assisted in their illegal business by Louise (Claudia Karvan), a lawyer with a cocaine problem who is also John's lover. But when Louise becomes involved with Ben and demands a bigger share of the money, their already-shaky confidence game begins to collapse.
Acting
Bryan Brown's career-best scumbag energy — charming and repulsive simultaneously
Direction
Alan White squeezes maximum dread from fluorescent office spaces
Director
Alan White
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is peak 'Ozploitation' prestige — Australian cinema's 90s-00s obsession with criminal masculinity that made Bryan Brown the country's definitive toxic dad figure.
Tom Long and Claudia Karvan had already played lovers in 1999's 'Two Hands,' making their chemistry here either brilliantly comfortable or deeply weird depending on your perspective.
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