Prisoner Queen is a 2004

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The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...

 black comedy

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 film written

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 and directed

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 by cult movie director Timothy Spanos

Timothy Spanos

Timothy Spanos is an Australian film director.Spanos has made four feature films in Australia that have become cult movie hits in the USA and Europe. His first film, Prisoner Queen, was about an actress who is diagnosed with leukemia and her son who believes he is living in the television series...

.

The film is a story about an old actress who is diagnosed with leukaemia. Her son Alex struggles to cope with her illness and escapes into a warped fantasy that he is living in the prison drama series that his mother once appeared in. By day he works as a waiter in a Melbourne cafe, where he acts out various scenario's to fussy customers and to a drug peddling co worker. By night, he dresses up as a prison officer and stalks the urban streets. Along the way he meets a variety of characters and becomes captivated with a transgender artist known as Miss Chrissy, who performs in drag as Chrissy Amphlett.

The films stars Jude Kuring

Jude Kuring

Jude Kuring is an Australian actress who appeared in film and television during the late 1970s and early 80s. She remains best known for her role as Noeline Bourke in the soap opera Prisoner....

, Tim Burns, Polly Stanton, Matt Thomas, Margo McLennan

Margo McLennan

Margo McLennan was a British actress known for her role in the Australian soap opera Prisoner. Born Eileen Marguerite McMenemy in Peckham, London she originally trained to be an ice skater before becoming an actress....

 and Cameron Nugent.

Prisoner Queen screened in USA, Ireland, Germany, New Zealand, Canada and the UK. It screened in Melbourne as part of the 2005 Melbourne Underground Film Festival. In February 2009, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image announced a tribute to Jude Kuring highlighting her acting career with screenings of "Prisoner Queen", amongst other notable screen performances.

Jude Kuring

Jude Kuring

Jude Kuring is an Australian actress who appeared in film and television during the late 1970s and early 80s. She remains best known for her role as Noeline Bourke in the soap opera Prisoner....

 took on the role after a 20 year absence from acting.
Margo McLennan

Margo McLennan

Margo McLennan was a British actress known for her role in the Australian soap opera Prisoner. Born Eileen Marguerite McMenemy in Peckham, London she originally trained to be an ice skater before becoming an actress....

 and Tim Burns appeared in a car commercial before working together again on this film.
Melbourne actress Polly Stanton appears with her real life mother, Jill Forster

Jill Forster

-Career:Fortster has been in numerous Australian television dramas including Motel, Number 96, The Box, The Restless Years, Starting Out, Prisoner, A Country Practice, The Flying Doctors, The Power, The Passion and SeaChange...

 in a scene where she is car jacked.
Lead singer of The Mavis's

The Mavis's

The Mavis's were an Australian pop band from Ballarat, Victoria. The band was composed of Matt Thomas , his sister Becky Thomas , Nick Gill , Andrea Vendy , and Josh Alexander . They are best known for their 1998 synth-driven single "Cry", which appeared on the Triple J Hottest 100 for 1998...

, Matt Thomas plays a drag queen version of Divinyls

Divinyls

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 lead singer Chrissy Amphlett.
Tim Burns, Matt Thomas

Matt Thomas

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, Michael Burkett

Michael Burkett

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 and Polly Stanton all took on major roles in Spanos's next film Nancy Nancy. Prisoner Queen is so far the only Australian feature film in the 21st century to feature a male-to-female transgender character.

Cast

Actor	Role
Jude Kuring Jude Kuring Jude Kuring is an Australian actress who appeared in film and television during the late 1970s and early 80s. She remains best known for her role as Noeline Bourke in the soap opera Prisoner....	Mum
Tim Burns	Alex
Nicholas Chilvers	Tristan
Matt Thomas Matt Thomas Matt Thomas is an Australian rules footballer, who currently plays for Port Adelaide in the Australian Football League . Recruited at pick number 8 in the 2006 Pre-season Draft from Sandringham, he has become known as a tough player. He can play as either a defender or a midfielder...	Miss Chrissy
Polly Stanton	Poppy
Michael Burkett Michael Burkett Michael Burkett is the name of:*F. Michael Burkett , American attorney and politician from Idaho*Mike Burkett, popularly known as Fat Mike, punk musician...	Dizzy
Margo McLennan Margo McLennan Margo McLennan was a British actress known for her role in the Australian soap opera Prisoner. Born Eileen Marguerite McMenemy in Peckham, London she originally trained to be an ice skater before becoming an actress....	Mrs Gelding
Cameron Nugent	Warren
Jill Forster Jill Forster -Career:Fortster has been in numerous Australian television dramas including Motel, Number 96, The Box, The Restless Years, Starting Out, Prisoner, A Country Practice, The Flying Doctors, The Power, The Passion and SeaChange...	Liza
Arthur Penn Arthur Penn Arthur Hiller Penn was an American film director and producer with a career as a theater director as well. Penn amassed a critically acclaimed body of work throughout the 1960s and 1970s.-Early years:...	Baz
Sean Gunn Sean Gunn Sean Gunn is an American actor, most famous for his role as Kirk Gleason on the television show Gilmore Girls .-Early life:...	Sam