Beautiful Kate

“In writer-director Rachel Ward’s gripping family psychodrama, the past explodes into the present as a son visits his dying father after a 20-year estrangement.” - Tom Ryan, Sunday Age review

Ned Kendall, a fortyish author who takes his young, slightly uncouth girlfriend, Toni along to visit his dying father, Bruce a failed politician and farmer now cared for by daughter Sally on the clan’s Aussie property. The relationship between Ned and Bruce remains supremely dysfunctional, as father constantly berates and pushes his son; the focal points of their conflicts spring from the teenage death of Ned’s twin sister Kate and the suicide of his older brother Cliff.