Cosi (film)

Cosi
Theatrical film poster
Directed by	Mark Joffe
Screenplay by	Louis Nowra
Based on	Così by Louis Nowra
Produced by	Richard Brennan Timothy White
Starring	Ben Mendelsohn Barry Otto Toni Collette Rachel Griffiths Aden Young Colin Friels Jacki Weaver David Wenham
Cinematography	Ellery Ryan
Edited by	Nicholas Beauman
Music by	Stephen Endelman
Production companies	Australian Film Finance Corporation Meridian Films Miramax Films Smiley Productions
Distributed by	Roadshow Entertainment
Release date	28 March 1996 (1996-03-28)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	A$3.5 million[1]
Box office	A$2,896,980 (Australia)

Cosi is a 1996 Australian comedy-drama film directed by Mark Joffe. Louis Nowra wrote both the screenplay and the 1992 play it was originally based on.

The story is loosely based on Nowra's own experience at producing Trial by Jury at Plenty Mental Hospital in suburban Melbourne in 1971.^[2]