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The Rage in Placid Lake is a film of genre Comedy released in USA on 17 may 2003 with Benjamin Lee
The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)
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Add to a movie listThe Rage in Placid Lake is a 2003 Australian film starring Ben Lee and Rose Byrne. It features Placid Lake (Lee), a seventeen-year-old boy who has led a suburban hippie life with his neurotic, free loving parents. The film documents his journey of self-discovery as he rejects his hippie roots and embraces the mundane by working for an insurance agency, much to his parents' horror.
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Precocious, bohemian teenager Placid Lake finishes high school, but after having an existential crisis devises a plan to totally reinvent himself as a functioning member of society. With a few weeks spent reading a library of self-help manuals, Lake gets a haircut, bespoke suit, and gets a white collar job working for an insurance agency. Lake has a smart friend Gemma (played by Byrne) who tries to talk him out of his newly found economic rationalism.Actors
Benjamin Lee
Rose Byrne
(Gemma Taylor)
Miranda Richardson
(Sylvia Lake)
Garry McDonald
(Doug Lake)
Claire Danes
(Girl at Seminar)
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