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Soft Fruit. - Review - movie review
Interview, April, 2000 by Graham Fuller
Directed by Christina Andreef
Three zaftig sisters and their drug-quaffing parolee brother come home to nurse their dying but irrepressibly cheerful mother through her last days, their mission not helped by their abusive, incommunicative father. Whereas American movies soak family tragedies in tears, their Aussie equivalents are often blunt, vulgar, and big-hearted. Like Muriel's Wedding before it, Soft Fruit is a feel-good black comedy about death and dysfunctionalism. Despite the occasional epiphany (mum's day out at the beach), Andreef's fine feature debut is mostly suffused with bitter regret.
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