Bliss (1985 film)

Bliss
DVD cover
Directed byRay Lawrence
Screenplay byRay Lawrence
Peter Carey
Based onBliss
by Peter Carey
Produced byAnthony Buckley
StarringBarry Otto
Lynette Curran
Helen Jones
CinematographyPaul Murphy
Edited byWayne LeClos
Music byPeter Best
Production
company
Window III Productions
Distributed byAnthony Buckley
Release dates
  • 18 May 1985 (1985-05-18) (Cannes)
  • 19 September 1985 (1985-09-19) (Australia)
Running time
112 minutes
130 minutes (Director's cut)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$3.4 million[1]
Box officeA$1,144,863 (Australia)[2]
$660,537 (US only)

Bliss is a 1985 Australian comedy-drama film directed by Ray Lawrence, and co-written by Lawrence and Peter Carey, based on Carey's 1981 novel of the same name. It stars Barry Otto, Lynette Curran and Helen Jones.

After a rocky start – 400 of the 2000-strong audience walked out during its first screening at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival – the film went on to receive multiple awards at the AFI awards.[3][4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference stratton2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 24 October 2009
  3. ^ australianscreen.com.au – Bliss info
  4. ^ Peter Galvin, "Bliss in a sometimes Joyless world", Cinema Papers, November 1985 p. 16