Mental (2012 film)

Mental is a 2012 Australian comedy film directed by PJ Hogan and starring Toni Collette, Rebecca Gibney, Anthony LaPaglia and Liev Schreiber. It premiered on closing night at the 2012 Melbourne International Film Festival, and was released in cinemas onOctober 2012.

Barry enlists a mysterious, surly hitchhiker named Shaz Toni Collette to care for his family. Shaz terrifies the girls into obedience with her ocker accent, her dog Ripper and the knife she keeps in her cowboy boot, but she also encourages them to stand up to local bullies including their smarmy Aunt Doris Caroline Goodall, their snobbish, houseproud neighbour Nancy Kerry Fox and the two mean girls who run the local coffee shop and who had forced Shirley to eat unwanted donuts. Shazs philosophy is that the normal world is insane, and socalled crazy people are the normal ones. She leads the Moochmore girls on a dawn climb of a nearby mountain. From its peak, they each select a stone to symbolise their newfound ability to overcome adversity.Shaz also encourages eldest daughter Coral Lily Sullivan to pursue a romance with Trout Sam Clark, a hunky, guitarstrumming lifeguard at the aquatic theme park where Coral works for an eccentric shark hunter named Trevor Blundell Liev Schreiber. Trevor had earlier disrupted Trout clumsily kissing Coral in the shark exhibit but thanks to the confidence Shaz instils in Coral, Trout genuinely falls for her, and the pair spend a romantic evening together riding waterslides in the nude after the park has closed. ........

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