Eddie Harnovey, an honest and kind lad, has everything one needs to happiness: a lovely house, prestige work, a beautiful wife and a charming daughter.
One can live and be happy. Nothing off the kind, he was impatient to seek troubles!
And when his professional career comes into conflict with his moral values, Eddie chooses unconditionally moral values.
With all his outdated principles Eddie is like Don Quijote against a background of industrial scenery.
As a result: he lost his job and almost lost the house, the wife is in a hysterical stage of depression, the daughter needs expensive treatment, and around are hooligans with bludgeons, fainting old ladies, which need aspirin etc.
And as bad luck would have it, with a splendid accuracy one time a nine and a half years, love from Eddie's childhood - a Charming Amanda appears on the horizon, a fancy of not fulfilled dreamsЕ
On the top of his life crisis Eddie finds out that he has lost almost everything and three dollars in his pocket are initial capital for his future.
Which way Eddie will choose? Will he bend his neck or with unabated perseverance will follow the same direction?
Twenty years ago the Soviet distributors wouldn't miss this uncommon for the West film, where antagonism problems between economical rationalism and ethic principles are set out very sharply. Alas, but modern Russian viewer has the only opportunity - to read this synopsis.
For the true David's fans it will be interesting to know that this work he dedicated to his father, because Eddie's mental type had reminded him of his father.
Cast:
David Wenham ...Eddie Harnovey
Sarah Wynter ...Amanda
Frances O'Connor ...Tanya Harnovey
Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik ...Abby Harnovey
Nico Billeam ...Tiny
Christopher Bunworth ...Chamberlain
David Roberts ...Gerard
Phillip Griffiths ...Young Eddie Harnovey
Casey Petersen ...Young Amanda
Phil Jones ...Mr. Claremont
Nicole Nabout ... Kate
Peter Houghton ...Paul
Kieron O'Leary ...Young Eddie's Father
Jamie Robertson ...Record Shop Assistant
Julia Blake ...Tanya's Mother
John Flaus ...Old Man Williamson
and the others...
