Bruce Beresford

Ashley Judd, Jay Brazow, Bruce Greenwood being an absolute dick, and Annabeth Gish.

It's directed by Bruce Beresford, and the synopsis is after being jailed for her husband's murder, she didn't do it.

A woman learns that he's still alive.

Oh yeah, this mofo went on to have a whole life.

I think that's a very important component to this and it works to some degree.

Okay, it's still ridiculous, but you know.

I don't think I knew that Bruce Beresford directed this either because, I mean, he's a well-known Australian director.

He made a film out here in the 70s called Puberty Blues, which is a much beloved teen drama.

Bit of a tearjerker.

I don't know how it stands up today with race relations and everything, but directed by Bruce Beresford.

But yeah, he's really very good in that movie.

But number one has to be Unforgiven.

And look, I just couldn't get enough of this.

Look, the original Puberty Blues movie by Bruce Beresford is a classic, and this is a great example of remaking a fantastic film.

They basically followed the plot line of the original film, and all they did is fill in all the stories on the side.

I mean, Susie Porter and Dan Wiley as the loose neighbours next door to Claudia Carbon.

Hi, says the guy, I'm Bruce.

Bruce Beresford.

What's your name? Michael Rosen.

And the woman wrote it down.

It was called Side by Side.

Yes, I missed my chance of meeting a cast that included Barry Humphreys, Edna Everidge, herself, himself, if you get me, and Terry Thomas, a hero of mine from great 1950s comedies.

Or, you might think, more importantly, I missed my chance of working with the Oscar-winning film director, Bruce Beresford, director of a raft of films, including the much-celebrated Driving Miss Daisy.

But I like to think even, yes, even yet more importantly, I missed out on my chance of being a bouncer.

Drama scene

... interview with the film's director, Bruce Beresford.

So I have a couple of good details about that, but there's not a lot of drama behind the making of this movie, y'all.

It was pretty, like, cut and dry, um, like, assembly line type of movie.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Now, while all of this is going on, British director Bruce Beresford, best known for directing the Oscar-winning film Driving Miss Daisy, was trying to s-

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[laughs] Were you singled out, do you think?

Bruce Beresford asked me to play this character, Handcock, and he said, "You gotta wear a mustache." So I started to grow the mustache, and after about three weeks I looked at it and I thought, "This is dreadful." And I rang Bruce and I said, "Bruce, do I have to wear a mustache? I mean, you know, I can play this role without a mustache." He said, "Brian, this is a real character.

This is a real bloke.

You gotta wear the mustache." So I continued trying to grow this thing, and eventually I thought, "You know what? It's not bad.

Adamant that this ending was good, Shusett told Dino to consult with another director.

So he did, Bruce Beresford.

And it was only when Beresford said that it was good that Dino finally relented and called Shusett to thank him for being so stubborn.

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