Mull is a 1988

1988 in film

-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...

 Australian

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 drama film

Drama film

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 directed by Don McLennan. The film is based on the popular 1986 book, Mullaway by Bronwen 'Bron' Nichols.

Plot

A sixteen year-old teenage girl (Nadine Garner

Nadine Garner

Nadine Lynette Garner is an Australian actress.-Biography:Garner first came to public attention in 1985, as Tamara Henderson in the Australian TV series, The Henderson Kids, and then in her debut film The Still Point...

) is forced to care for her family, when her mother (Sue Jones

Sue Jones (actress)

Sue Jones is an Australian actress, born in Wales, UK. She is probably best known for playing Pam Willis in Neighbours from 1990 to 1994. She had also played an on-going role in the situation comedy The Tea Ladies , and was Kathy Hall in Prisoner in 1981...

) finds out she is dying of Hodgkin’s disease. The family consists of her father (Bill Hunter

Bill Hunter (actor)

William John "Bill" Hunter was an Australian actor of film, stage and television. He appeared in more than 60 films and won two Australian Film Institute Awards.-Early life:Hunter was a son of William and Francie Hunter...

) a reformed alcoholic and recently born-again Christian, her heroin-dabbling closet gay older brother (Craig Morrison), and two trying younger siblings (Bradley Kilpatrick and Kymara Stowers) all packed into a rented flat in the Melbourne bayside suburb of St Kilda

St Kilda, Victoria

St Kilda is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip...

. She also has to deal with her pregnant Greek best friend (Mary Coustas

Mary Coustas

Mary Coustas is an Australian television personality. Originally from Melbourne, Coustas often performs as the character "Effie": a stereotypical second-generation Greek Australian...

), her yearnings for her brother’s deaf-mute best friend (Juno Roxas

Juno Roxas

Juno Roxas is an Australian musician and actor.-Biography:Roxas was one of the founding members of Metal Pop band, Roxus, together with Dragan Stanic , John 'Stones' Nixon , Darren Danielson and Andy Shanahan...

) and her gay former schoolteacher plus his lover.

Cast

Main cast

Actor/actress	Character
Nadine Garner Nadine Garner Nadine Lynette Garner is an Australian actress.-Biography:Garner first came to public attention in 1985, as Tamara Henderson in the Australian TV series, The Henderson Kids, and then in her debut film The Still Point...	Phoebe Mullens
Bill Hunter Bill Hunter (actor) William John "Bill" Hunter was an Australian actor of film, stage and television. He appeared in more than 60 films and won two Australian Film Institute Awards.-Early life:Hunter was a son of William and Francie Hunter...	Frank Mullens
Sue Jones Sue Jones (actress) Sue Jones is an Australian actress, born in Wales, UK. She is probably best known for playing Pam Willis in Neighbours from 1990 to 1994. She had also played an on-going role in the situation comedy The Tea Ladies , and was Kathy Hall in Prisoner in 1981...	Deborah Mullens
Craig Morrison	Steven Mullens
Bradley Kilpatrick	Allan Mullens
Kymara Stowers	Jodie Mullens
Dominic Sweeney	Jim
Juno Roxas Juno Roxas Juno Roxas is an Australian musician and actor.-Biography:Roxas was one of the founding members of Metal Pop band, Roxus, together with Dragan Stanic , John 'Stones' Nixon , Darren Danielson and Andy Shanahan...	Guido
Esme Melville Esme Melville Esme Melville was an Australian actress.Her television credits of the 1970s included various guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police and Bluey...	Fanny
Gerard Maguire Gerard Maguire Gerard Maguire is an Australian stage, voice and television actor, best known for his role as Deputy Governor Jim Fletcher in Prisoner...	Dr. Graham
Mary Coustas Mary Coustas Mary Coustas is an Australian television personality. Originally from Melbourne, Coustas often performs as the character "Effie": a stereotypical second-generation Greek Australian...	Helen
Monty Maizels	Don
Nick Giannopoulos Nick Giannopoulos Nick Giannopoulos is a Australian stand-up comedian, film and TV actor. He is best known for his comedy stage show Wogs Out of Work alongside George Kapiniaris and the television sitcom Acropolis Now and is an exponent of wog comedy.-Early life:Nick is an actor/writer/producer/director...	George
David Cameron	Larry
Bruce Langdon	Paul
Vince Jones Vince Jones Vince Jones is an Australian jazz artist. He is a singer, songwriter, and trumpet/flugelhorn player. His music includes both original music and new contemporary versions of jazz standards. His themes are often love, inequity, injustice, peace and anti-greed.He attributes his love of jazz to...	jazz singer

Awards

Mull received six nominations at the 1988 Australian Film Institute Awards

Australian Film Institute Awards

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: 'Best Film

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', 'Best Director' (McLennan), 'Best Actress

Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role

The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role is an award presented annually at the Australian Film Institute Awards. The award has been presented annually since 1971.-History:...

' (Garner), 'Best Supporting Actress

Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role is an award in the annual Australian Film Institute Awards. It has been awarded annually since 1976.-Previous winners:*1976: Melissa Jaffer – Caddie...

' (for both Jones and Coustas) and 'Best Costume Design' (Jeanie Cameron). Nadine Garner winning the 'Best Actress' award.

The film was also screened at the 33rd Regus London Film Festival

London Film Festival

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in 1989.