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ACTOR
Susie PorterLinda CropperJacob AllanPeter Phelps
DIRECTOR
Melanie Read
SYNOPSICS
Teesh and Trude (2002) is a English movie. Melanie Read has directed this movie. Susie Porter,Linda Cropper,Jacob Allan,Peter Phelps are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2002. Teesh and Trude (2002) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
In Unit 16b at Platypus Rise Flats, two hard and damaged women living on a diet of soapies, sarcasm and frustration are about to reach breaking point. A bad day becomes worse by the hour and to top it off, the toilet won't flush.
Teesh and Trude (2002) Reviews
realistic portrayal of the sad lifestyle of a pair of aussie battlers
People who pan this film miss the unique Australian-ness of it. The sad and sorry demographic represented by the two women is so realistically portrayed, so that while we almost depise Teesh for her slack layabout lifestyle, as she reluctantly reveals more about herself we cannot but help feeling stirrings of empathy. Susie Porter's performance is fine, and for that matter so is Linda Cropper's as the sad mother desperate to see her kids again but so caught up in a loser's lifestyle that she can hardly surface for air. This film is a little gem that grows on the viewer and shouldn't be dismissed.
An Engaging Independent Aussie Film
A rewarding and engaging independent movie with a tough script and gutsy performances from the two female leads. It seems we can stomach gritty working-class films if they come out of the UK - Ken Loach say, or Mike Leigh - but in Australia if it's not Kath and Kim or The Castle then we find the portrayals a little hard to handle. Teesh and Trude offers us a day in the life of two working class mums doing it hard (very hard) and manages, through some fine directing, to deliver to these women some redemption at the end of a difficult bloody day. Peter Phelps is great as the buffoon boyfriend, Susie Porter and Linda Cropper navigate frustration and despair with dignity and humour. The direction (by Melanie Rodriga) searches for the hidden beauty in the council flat and the shopping centre and somehow, manages to find them without resorting to sentimentality or cheap laughs.
Transcendent domesticity
Tiny triumphs in the lives of the two eponymous women, but a major triumph for three other women: the writer, producer and director. Starting with the most recalcitrant of material: cigarettes and beer, kitchens and toilet cisterns, tampons and hyperactive kids, unlucky women and untrustworthy men, the film-makers turn a literally kitchen-sink drama into a reaffirmation of the resurgence of the human spirit in the face of the most annoyingly trivial kinds of adversity. The film has been written with great care (although a good deal of quite realistic vulgarity) the editing is tight, the production design is witty, and the narrative arc comes to a delightful closure.
Very depressing view of lower class Australia
I watched this film because I noted that it was Australian, and that it had some very good actors in it. I was so disappointed in it! It showed the worst of Australia. It just came across as one horrible dole bludger in particular (Teesh) who didn't care about anyone else, was a bad mum, an insensitive and inconsiderate housemate, and a cow of a girlfriend. Trude came across as slightly more likable, she attempted to do the right thing, wanted to try to keep the house tidy and the cupboards full. Teesh just seemed to be a taker, and Trude a giver. Trude's boyfriend was a jerk, who should not have been in responsibility of others, as he couldn't be bothered to ensure that supplies were correct, or that the work was being done - he was much happier nicking off to have a beer or a quickie (if it was on offer). He openly cracked onto a friend of Trude's in front of her, and gave Trude a pair of underwear that appeared to have come from another woman. For some reason, she put up with this. Teesh didn't seem to want to better herself at all. Her son, whose age was not clear to me, was still sleeping in a cot. She gave him sleeping tablets to shut him up so she could watch TV in peace. What kind of mother does that? Trude wanted to better herself, but it seemed with the people she was associating with, it would never happen. The movie was just depressing, it seemed like these two women lived at rock bottom, with nowhere to go, and with no probability of ever getting out of their rut. The movie seemed to be an excuse for trying to put the word "F**K" into as many sentences as humanly possible. I know that some lower class, uneducated people speak like this, but surely not to the same extent as this? The ending was quite entertaining and enjoyable, but it really didn't make up for being forced to live through the rest of the movie.