Desperate Remedies
Suitable for mature audiences 1993 1h 33m Film
- Drama
- Romance
About
This stylishly over the top melodrama from directors Stewart Main and Peter Wells won major acclaim after debuting at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. In the imaginary 19th-century town of Hope, draper Dorothea Brooks (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is desperate to save her sister (Lisa Chappell) from the clutches of opium, sex and the dastardly Fraser (Cliff Curtis). She begs a hunky migrant (Kevin Smith) to help; complications ensue. Inspired partly by 1930s and 40s Hollywood melodramas, Desperate Remedies was sumptously and deliriously shot by Leon Narbey (Whale Rider). Richard King writes about the film here.
Key Cast & Crew
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Trishia Downie
Associate Producer
Related images
From left to right: Cliff Curtis as Fraser, Kevin Smith as Lawrence Hayes, Jennifer Ward-Lealand as Dorothea and Lisa Chappell as Anne Cooper.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
Kevin Smith as Lawrence Hayes and Lisa Chappell as Anne Cooper in Desperate Remedies.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
Kevin Smith as Lawrence Hayes in Desperate Remedies.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
