Spider and Rose

Spider and Rose (1994)

A young ambulance driver befriends an elderly woman.

Date of release
1994-09-15
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Bill Bennett

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$856.1K
  • Awards: 2 · Nominations: 1. Including: Tromsø International Film Festival's audience award; AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Spider and Rose is a 1994 Australian film directed by Bill Bennett and starring Ruth Cracknell, Simon Bossell, and Max Cullen. It is about the relationship between an elderly lady, and a young ambulance driver.

Production

Bennett claimed he wanted to make something "a bit more mainstream" than his earlier films. The story was inspired by his grandmother who lost her partner in a road accident. He was also inspired by having been in a several car crash himself in the 1970s which gave him a great appreciation for ambulance drivers.

Bennett later said he did not regard the film as a comedy but "a drama that would have some funny bits in it... Even now I don't see the film as a comedy. I regard it as quite a serious treatise on the way we treat the aged."

Bennett estimated it took four years from writing the first treatment through to the completion of the film.

The movie was entirely funded by the AFFC. However it did not want to cast Ruth Cracknell or Simon Bossell. "Ruth Cracknell has yet to deliver a credible screen performance and Simon Bossell (Joh’s Jury) is highly inexperienced", wrote FFC executive Catriona Hughes to the FFC board.

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