Dr. Brian Cowper and his wife Jill are young academics in Adelaide. She's at home alone writing her thesis when Max the plumber rings her door bell. He says he's doing routine maintenance for the university apartments. He starts bashing away doing unnecessary repairs. The bathroom gets worst and worst. Jill gets more and more scared. Eventually, it all comes to a head.
This is an intriguing premise. It's really built to be a movie for the two leads over an afternoon. I like his goofy surfer turns creepy convict vibe. It needs a reason for her not simply to leave the apartment to find her husband and obviously take his colleagues out for dinner. The premise falls apart as time passes. It gets a little ridiculous. Her husband is too uncaring. Only an idiot would force his wife to stay with a man she fears. She should just leave the apartment. She might as well leave the husband, too. I do like how it ends turning the whole movie on its head. It's good early work from Australian filmmaker Peter Weir. There are a couple of good intense scenes. The elevator scene is great. It's a good indie.
This is an intriguing premise. It's really built to be a movie for the two leads over an afternoon. I like his goofy surfer turns creepy convict vibe. It needs a reason for her not simply to leave the apartment to find her husband and obviously take his colleagues out for dinner. The premise falls apart as time passes. It gets a little ridiculous. Her husband is too uncaring. Only an idiot would force his wife to stay with a man she fears. She should just leave the apartment. She might as well leave the husband, too. I do like how it ends turning the whole movie on its head. It's good early work from Australian filmmaker Peter Weir. There are a couple of good intense scenes. The elevator scene is great. It's a good indie.