Two Hands (1999 film)

Two Hands
Australian DVD cover
Directed byGregor Jordan
Written byGregor Jordan
Produced byMarian Macgowan
StarringHeath Ledger
Bryan Brown
Rose Byrne
David Field
CinematographyMalcolm McCulloch
Edited byLee Smith
Music byCezary Skubiszewski
Production
companies
CML
Meridian Films
Distributed byREP Distribution
Release date
  • 29 July 1999 (1999-07-29)
Running time
93 minutes[1]
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4.4 million[2]
Box office$5.5 million[2]

Two Hands is a 1999 Australian crime comedy film written and directed by Gregor Jordan.[3] The film stars Heath Ledger as Jimmy, a young man in debt to Pando, a local gangster played by Bryan Brown, and also stars Rose Byrne, David Field, and Susie Porter. It won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film in 1999. It was screened at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, but did not receive a theatrical release in the United States, releasing straight to DVD in December 2005.

At the ARIA Music Awards of 1999 the soundtrack was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack Album.[4]

  1. ^ "Two Hands (1999) (Sunburnt Screens #19) Blu-Ray". Umbrella Entertainment. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  2. ^ a b ""Two Hands"".
  3. ^ Fingerprints: The Best of Powderfinger, 1994-2000. Universal Music. 30 October 2004. p. 3.
  4. ^ ARIA Award previous winners. "History Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 12 July 2022.