Simon Foster
"Wildly funny and deeply moving in equal measure, it is a work rich in larrikin character but universal in its themes and appeal..."
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Girl Asleep
- Fantasy
- Comedy
- Drama
10/20/2015
77
Fifteen is going to turn a corner. It has to.
The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen, she can’t bear to leave her childhood; it contains all the things that give her comfort in an incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend, Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise fifteenth birthday party and she’s flung into a parallel place—a world that’s weirdly erotic, a little bit violent, and thoroughly ludicrous. Only there can she find herself.
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- $1,150,118
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Cast
Bethany WhitmoreGreta
Harrison FeldmanElliott- Amber McMahonJanet / Frozen Woman
- Matthew WhittetConrad / Abject Man
- Eamon FarrenAdam / Benoit Tremet
- Tilda Cobham-HerveyHuldra
- Imogen ArcherGenevieve
- Maiah StewardsonJade
Fiona DawsonAmber- Grace DawsonSapphire
- Danielle CatanzaritiDenise Mackell / The Crone
- Lucy CowanLittle Greta
- Pia MoutakisTwin 1
- Clara MoutakisTwin 2
- Edison CovillMascot Boy
- Emily LiuCrane Girl
Reviews
Rangan
Greta in woodland!
This is a short Aussie film, kind of inspired by 'Alice in Wonderland', but originally based on the stage play of the same name. A teen comedy set in the 70s and revolved around a birthday party. So, newly moved into the town, Greta, finds hard to make friends, except a boy. Entering 15th, her family wants to throw a big birthday party inviting her new schoolmates, against her will. On the occasion, something goes wrong and the next minute, she's in a strange place with strange events and people. Her adventure begins to return home and the party she had left behind in halfway which revealed in the rest of the film.
I thought it was a children's and family film, but some of the references like relating to sex was...