Two acclaimed films adapted from Shane Maloney’s Novels, and one extras disc with delights too numerous to mention.
STIFF
Single father and true believer Murray Whelan thinks the life of a political minder is complicated enough with a femocrat ex, and bad blood at Trades Hall.
But throw in a snap-frozen Turk, drugs under the mattress, fascist funeral rites, the tattooed voter, a killer car, blood-sucking parasites, and Murray soon finds things spinning fatally out of control. That’s when the red-hot Ayisha knocks on his door.
THE BRUSH OFF
On a sultry summer night Murray Whelan is in the Botanic Gardens tasting Salina Fleet’s apricot lips.
Meanwhile a dead artist is being fished from the ornamental moat outside the art gallery. Political minder and brushed-off lover Murray Whelan goes looking for the big picture and learns that when you dabble with death there is nothing abstract about a loaded gun.
EXTRAS DVD
THE BOOKS, THE SCREENPLAYS, THE FILMS, THE ADAPTATION, THE DIRECTING, THE CHALLENGES…
Includes interviews and analysis with author, Shane Maloney; directors John Clarke and Sam Neill; actor David Wenham; publisher Michael Heyward; and the co-producer Jay Cassells. The feature discs include audio commentaries by John Clarke (Stiff) and Sam Neill (The Brush Off)