Shame (1988 film)

Shame is a 1988 Australian Film directed by Steve Jodrell and starring DeborraLee Furness as Asta, for which she won both the 1988 FCCA Best Actor and Golden Space Needle Best Actress awards as well as the FCCA awarding Best Screenplay to both Beverley Blankenship and Michael Brindley.

She gives support to a young girl, Lizzie, who has been gang raped by local youths a crime compounded by the neurotically tolerant attitude adopted by the towns citizens, including the police sergeant and even her father, who blame the girl for the boys behaviourAsta is treated disrespectfully by men in the local pub. Directed to the towns mechanic, Tim Curtis, Asta stays with his family as a guest. Members of the family are visibly troubled and suffering from some sort of depressive condition. ........

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