Metal Skin

Metal Skin is a 1994 Australian film written and directed by Geoffrey Wright, starring Aden Young, Tara Morice, Nadine Garner and Ben Mendelsohn. The film follows the lives of four adolescents in and around the bluecollar Melbourne suburb of Altona.

Despite generally positive reviews and selection in the 1994 Venice Film Festival, Metal Skin proved a disappointment at the Australian box office when it was released onMay 1995 where it grossed 883,521. Australian critic Andrew Howe praised it as a dark, arresting ode to suburban hopelessness however Todd McCarthy writing in Variety described the film as so overwrought and unrelievedly grim that it comes close to playing like a parody of teenage angst movies.It won AFI Awards in 1995 for Best Production Design Steven JonesEvans and Best Sound Frank Lipson, David Lee, Steve Burgess, Peter Burgess, Glenn Newnham and received nominations for Best Actor Aden Young, Supporting Actor Ben Mendelsohn, Supporting Actress Nadine Garner and Costume Design Anna Borghesi. Aden Young and Ben Mendelsohn shared the Film Critics Circle of Australia prize for Best Actor. ........

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