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Amy is a Australien film of genre Drama directed by Nadia Tass released in USA on 12 september 1997 with Rachel Griffiths
Amy (1998)
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Add to a movie listAmy is a 1997 Australian film written by David Parker and directed by Nadia Tass, starring Alana De Roma in the title role, Rachel Griffiths, Ben Mendelsohn, and Nick Barker.
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Amy's (Alana De Roma) father, Will Enker (Nick Barker), was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya (Rachel Griffiths), to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence. Amy befriends her neighbor, Robert (Ben Mendelsohn), and while social workers try desperately to get her to speak and go to school, she makes the choice to communicate again and begins to sing along to Robert's rock songs after three years of silence. Her mother works out her own emotional issues with the help of a therapist.Actors
Rachel Griffiths
(Tanya Rammus)
Ben Mendelsohn
(Robert Buchanan)
Kerry Armstrong
(Sarah Trendle)
Sullivan Stapleton
(Wayne Lassiter)
Mary Ward Breheny
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