Jack Brown Genius DVD

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Jack Brown, Genius - 1995




Wingnut Films/Senator Films co-production - 91 min.

Cast: Timothy Balme, Nicola Murphy, Marton Csokas, Stuart Devenie, Edward Campbell, Lisa Chappell.
Crew: Screenplay: Tony Hiles, Peter Jackson, Frances Walsh; Cinematography: Allen Guilford; Editor: Jamie Selkirk; Score: Plan 9 - Steve Roche, David Donaldson, Janet Roddick; Producers; Jamie Selkirk, Jim Booth, Peter Jackson, Hanno Huth; Visual Effects: Weta Ltd; Director: Tony Hiles.
In the chambers of a thousand-year-old monastery lives a monk who dreamed of being able to fly to see his creator. He invents a winged system, but falls to his death and is judged a suicide and relegated to purgatory. Since then, the monk has been searching for someone to free him, and 1000 years later finds inventor Jack Brown into whose brain he resides to help him build the wing system correctly which will free the monk from purgatory. This "comedy" fantasy seems to have a somewhat troubled script, and/or direction, in a confusing mix of genres.

Censor Rating: M - Review Rating: C-


AVAILABILITY OF VHS OR DVD COPIES

No known source for copies in NTSC format. German PAL VHS copies can be obtained for about 15Euros. R0 NTSC DVD copies, with optional Chinese subtitles, are available from Hong Kong, but difficult to find - new copies will probably be over $20us. It is presented 1.33:1 with 2.0 dolby digital sound with the only extras being brief bios of Timothy Balme and Stuart Devenie, plus an overall synopsis of the film, all in English text.
NOTE: I have a couple of extra new copies which I will sell for $15us + shipping. Email me for details.


SOUNDTRACK ON AUDIO CD

No known soundtrack CDs of this title,.

Link to soundtrack sample download


REVIEWS

North & South Review

New Zealand Film Commission Synopsis

DVD Compare Review

Four Word Film Review

IMDB User Comments

"Director Tony Hiles was for ten years a producer / director with New Zealand television, before establishing his own production company in 1979. He says his first feature will be a film with strong entertainment value, energetic relationships and rich characterisations. 'I also want to mix reality and fantasy. The dream of flight is a romantically whimsical notion, and the tough commercial world in which we live is the reality against which the fantasy is played. It is a comedy with a strong story. It's also a rollicking adventure and a romance'" - (Tony Hiles in, NZ Film, No.52, October 1994, pg.7)


TRAILER & AWARDS

Opening video clip

1996 - New Zealand Film Awards - Best Actor: Timothy Balme; Best Director: Tony Hiles; Best Film Score: David Donaldson, Steve Roche, Janet Roddick.


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