In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to climb the social ladder. Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, quietly observes the infidelities and hypocrisies of this overly privileged society. When Devon, a 10-year-old daughter from one family, forges a friendship with Trent, things suddenly get very complicated.
Acting
Sam Rockwell's quiet, magnetic outsider performance.
Direction
Duigan makes manicured lawns feel genuinely menacing.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes politeness against itself.
Director
John Duigan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mischa Barton was 11 during filming; this was her feature debut before The Sixth Sense made her famous.
The film was barely released in the US due to distributor fears about the adult-child friendship storyline — audiences proved more sophisticated than expected.
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