Themes: Haunted By the Past, Mothers and Daughters
Main Cast: Judy Davis, John Bach, Julia Blake, Alex Menglet, Marshall Napier
Release Year: 1988
Country: AU
Run Time: 90 minutes
Plot
The limitless talents of British actress Judy Davis are generously displayed throughout Georgia. Davis plays a dual role, as Nina, a brilliant attorney and (in flashbacks) Georgia, the attorney's mother. Haunted by her mother's long-ago death by drowning, Nina reopens the investigation. What she learns not only jeopardizes her relationships with several loved ones, but also puts her own life in peril. Perhaps too intense for some viewers, Georgia is nonetheless deserving of a wider audience than it originally received in 1988. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Tommy Dysart - Bystander; David Letch - Gallery manager; John O'May - Mr. Leonard; Roy Baldwin - Librarian; Colin Hay - Policeman; Lewis Fiander - Scarlatti; Nick Lathouris - Bystander
Credit
Aphrodite Kondos - Costume Designer, Ben Lewin - Director, Edward McQueen-Mason - Editor, Paul Grabowsky - Composer (Music Score), Jon Dowding - Production Designer, Yuri Sokol - Cinematographer, Bob Weis - Producer, John Phillips - Sound/Sound Designer, Ben Lewin - Screenwriter, Bob Weis - Screenwriter
Georgia is a 1988 Australian thriller film directed by Ben Lewin starring Judy Davis and John Bach.
Judy Davis plays the two roles of a mother, Georgia, and her daughter Nina. The film is presented as a series of flashbacks as Nina investigates her mother's death, which led to her adoption as a young child.
