The Rage In Placid Lake (DVD)
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Placid Lake (Ben Lee) is not your average high school kid and is most certainly not normal. Having grown up with a pair of hippie parents, who not only gave him a very peculiar first name, but forced him to challenge everything from gender roles (his mother makes him attend his first day of primary school wearing a dress) to not fighting back when he is regularly beaten up at school by all manner of bullies. Placid takes all of this beating in his stride and doesn't even attempt to fit the norms of his school. He seems to take pride in his being different and actually revels in it on occasion. He has few friends apart from the geeky Gemma (Rose Byrne), who is in a similar situation to Placid with her above average intelligence making her different to most of the girls at school.
With the final year of school about to end and after a particularly nasty incident with some school bullies who Placid has just humiliated in the most extraordinary way only he could, our hero finds his life about to head off in a rather different direction. He suddenly decides that he has had enough of being different and wants to conform to mainstream society's expectations. This means a new haircut (modelled on George W. Bush if you don't mind), a new suit, and a job. But it's not just any sort of job. Placid has found a position with an insurance company and will head off to work each day with all the other suits to perform one meaningless task after another. His parents (played with relish by Garry McDonald and Miranda Richardson) are horrified. This is not the Placid they raised, so in between getting caught up in their own selfish anxieties they set about trying to make him see the error of his ways. Gemma is also horrified, especially when a smitten and over-sexed work colleague of Placid's starts making advances towards the new boy in the office. Despite Gemma's insistence that her relationship with Placid is purely platonic, she feels some pangs of jealousy towards this new woman in his life.
Will Placid maintain this falsehood of a life in the corporate world or will he realise that he is different and that he doesn't need to conform just to fit in? This often witty, sometimes dark, yet often deeply resonating tale of mainstream acceptance and finding your place in the wide world will enlighten and entertain despite being a little hit and miss with the comedic angle at times.
The Rage In Placid Lake (DVD)
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$9.99
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$9.99
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🔴 Condition - Good 🔴
Placid Lake (Ben Lee) is not your average high school kid and is most certainly not normal. Having grown up with a pair of hippie parents, who not only gave him a very peculiar first name, but forced him to challenge everything from gender roles (his mother makes him attend his first day of primary school wearing a dress) to not fighting back when he is regularly beaten up at school by all manner of bullies. Placid takes all of this beating in his stride and doesn't even attempt to fit the norms of his school. He seems to take pride in his being different and actually revels in it on occasion. He has few friends apart from the geeky Gemma (Rose Byrne), who is in a similar situation to Placid with her above average intelligence making her different to most of the girls at school.
With the final year of school about to end and after a particularly nasty incident with some school bullies who Placid has just humiliated in the most extraordinary way only he could, our hero finds his life about to head off in a rather different direction. He suddenly decides that he has had enough of being different and wants to conform to mainstream society's expectations. This means a new haircut (modelled on George W. Bush if you don't mind), a new suit, and a job. But it's not just any sort of job. Placid has found a position with an insurance company and will head off to work each day with all the other suits to perform one meaningless task after another. His parents (played with relish by Garry McDonald and Miranda Richardson) are horrified. This is not the Placid they raised, so in between getting caught up in their own selfish anxieties they set about trying to make him see the error of his ways. Gemma is also horrified, especially when a smitten and over-sexed work colleague of Placid's starts making advances towards the new boy in the office. Despite Gemma's insistence that her relationship with Placid is purely platonic, she feels some pangs of jealousy towards this new woman in his life.
Will Placid maintain this falsehood of a life in the corporate world or will he realise that he is different and that he doesn't need to conform just to fit in? This often witty, sometimes dark, yet often deeply resonating tale of mainstream acceptance and finding your place in the wide world will enlighten and entertain despite being a little hit and miss with the comedic angle at times.