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Solo - Colin Friels, Bojana Novakovic, Vince Colosimo, Morgan O'Neill

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Movie propaganda

Jack Barrett (Colin Friels) is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm of the Sydney Underworld. Stand-over tactics, prostitution, illegal gambling, creative importation - you name it, "The Gentlemen" are into it. And Barrett enforces it for them. Old school muscle for hire.

Now 53-years-old, he's tired of having to throw away perfectly good suits because you can't dry-clean the blood off. No surprise that when he shuts his eyes at night, all he sees is a small fishing village, a run-about and a long line. To get there, he needs to get out. Out of Sydney. Out of the game.

Which is, of course, easier said than done.

Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Australia crime organised retirement muscle Sydney stand-over prostitution gamble murder assassin killer

Persons of interest

Colin Friels .... Jack Barrett
Bojana Novakovic .... Billie
Angie Milliken .... Kate
Vince Colosimo .... Keeling
Linal Haft .... Reno
Bruce Spence .... Kennedy
Chris Haywood .... Arkan
Tony Barry .... Louis
Ahn Do .... Nguyen
Brian Harrison .... Havana
Jay Laga'aia .... Vincent
Morgan O'Neill .... Screenwriter
Morgan O'Neill .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

Solo official movie site
Solo film production notes
Solo QuickTime movie trailers
Awards and film festivals:

Australian Film Institute (AFI) Film Festival 2006: Screening
Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) Screen Music Awards 2006: Nominated: Best Soundtrack Album (Damian de Boos-Smith)
Film Critics Circle of Australia 2006: Nominated: Best Actor (Colin Friels), Original Screenplay, Editing
Project Greenlight Australia Scriptwriting Competition 2005: Won
Sydney Film Festival 2006: Gala event

See also The hard word, Two hands
Studios and distributors:

Dendy Films

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Even though Australians are very good at making crime movies, especially black comedy crime movies, Solo is not as entertaining as you would hope. That doesn't mean that it's bad, it just happens to be (a) depressingly full of despair and (b) written a tad too loosely. Overall, it sits between SNAK: Sensitive New Age Killer and The Magician. Nice twist, but.

The Australian crime movie Solo is directed by Morgan O'Neill and stars Colin Friels, Bojana Novakovic and Vince Colosimo.

Media intelligence (DVD)

Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
Languages: English
Picture: Widescreen 16:9
Special features:

Commentaries: Director Morgan O'Neill
Documentaries:

All 12 episodes from the Movie Network's behind-the-scenes documentary on the Project Greenlight Australia competition, from script selection through the making of the film to completion

Featurettes: B-roll footage
Interviews: Cast and crew
Trailers: Theatrical