Smash Palace

Smash Palace (1981)

En découvrant que sa femme le trompe avec un autre homme, Al Shaw décide de s'enfuir avec sa fille...

Date de sortie
1981-05-01
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (34)
Durée
1 h 48 min
Genres
Drame, Thriller
Réalisateur
Roger Donaldson

Distribution

Anecdotes

  • Tourné à : Nouvelle-Zélande

Smash Palace is a 1981 New Zealand drama/thriller directed by Roger Donaldson. The film chronicles Al, a retired race car driver who runs "Smash Palace", a carwrecking yard in rural Manawatū-Whanganui, with his depressed French wife Jacqui and their seven-year-old daughter Georgie. After their turbulent marriage breaks down and Jacqui obtains a restraining order against him, Al kidnaps Georgie and descends into the forest.

Production

Roger Donaldson was inspired to write the film after reading a newspaper article of a 5-year-old boy being kidnapped by his police officer father in a custody dispute, which resulted in an armed standoff. The film was funded by the New Zealand Film Commission. When Donaldson first applied for funding, he was turned down.

Bruno Lawrence made significant contributions to the film's script, working on writing sessions after shoots. One of the conditions of the film's eventual funding by the NZFC was that it be completed in time to screen at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. This forced a tight schedule on the production team, giving only four months between the commencement of the shoot and the film's premiere.

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