Well, The

Starring Pamela Rabe, Miranda Otto, Paul Chubb, and Frank Wilson

MPAA RATING: Not rated

Cowboy Booking International
Suspense/Thriller
102 minutes | Color
Australia
Released In Theaters May 19, 2000

Hester (Rabe) brings a young woman, Katherine (Otto) in to live with her and her father and to help with chores on their farm in the Australian Outback. The two women form an atypical relationship as one is older and more conservative while the other is younger and energetic. They must come to terms after a tragic night on the town puts them at odds.

WRITTEN BY
Laura Jones
Elizabeth Jolley (novel)

DIRECTED BY
Samantha Lang

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

67 / 100

Critic Reviews

80	The New York Times With a neck-snapping jolt, turns into the scariest exercise in cinematic sleight of hand since "The Blair Witch Project."
70	TV Guide A grim and deliciously twisted Gothic chiller from the dark side of sunny Down Under.
63	New York Post A heartfelt, beautifully acted film that suffers from its similarity to countless other movies.
60	Village Voice Still most easily defined by its unavoidable parallels to any number of lesbian-overtone psychodramas.

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