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Mark Joffe is a Director and Producer Australien born on 1956
Mark Joffe (born 1956) is an Australian film and television director. He has directed feature films, telemovies, and drama series.
Joffe "learned his trade at Crawford Productions", working on Carson's Law, Special Squad and Neighbours. His first major directing job was the first episode of The Great Bookie Robbery (1986).
He agreed to direct the Irish-American film The MatchMaker after gaining approval to have the script rewritten by Irish writer Graham Linehan, one of the writers of Father Ted
Il accepte de réaliser le film américain-irlandais L'Entremetteur (The MatchMaker) après avoir obtenu la réécriture du scénario par le scénariste irlandais Graham Linehan.
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Joffe "learned his trade at Crawford Productions", working on Carson's Law, Special Squad and Neighbours. His first major directing job was the first episode of The Great Bookie Robbery (1986).
He agreed to direct the Irish-American film The MatchMaker after gaining approval to have the script rewritten by Irish writer Graham Linehan, one of the writers of Father Ted
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Il a appris son métier de réalisateur dans la société de production australienne Crawford Productions , en travaillant sur différentes séries télévisées. Sa première réalisation majeure a été le premier épisode de The Great Bookie Robbery en 1986, pour lequel il reçoit un prix de l'Australian Film Institute.Il accepte de réaliser le film américain-irlandais L'Entremetteur (The MatchMaker) après avoir obtenu la réécriture du scénario par le scénariste irlandais Graham Linehan.
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The Man Who Sued God (2001)
, 1h42Directed by Mark Joffe
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Judy Davis, Billy Connolly, Emily Browning, Colin Friels, Wendy Hughes, Bille Brown
Rating63%
Advocate Steve Myers (Billy Connolly) is a disillusioned lawyer who becomes fed-up with the perceived corruption within the judicial system. He quits the law business and buys a small fishing boat and takes up fishing for a living. His fishing boat is struck by lightning and explodes into pieces, burns and sinks. He informs his insurance company, which reviews and then subsequently declines his claim on the grounds that it is not liable as his fishing boat was destroyed due to an "Act of God".
The Matchmaker (1997)
, 1h37Directed by Mark Joffe
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Janeane Garofalo, David O'Hara, Milo O'Shea, Jay O. Sanders, Denis Leary, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Rating64%
Marcy Tizard (Janeane Garofalo) is assistant to Senator John McGlory (Jay O. Sanders) from Boston, Massachusetts. In an attempt to court the Irish-American vote in a tough reelection battle, the bumbling senator's chief of staff, Nick (Denis Leary), sends Marcy to Ireland to find McGlory's relatives or ancestors.
Cosi (1996)
, 1h40Directed by Mark Joffe
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Aden Young, Colin Friels
Rating65%
Ben Mendelsohn stars as Lewis Riley, an unemployed young man who applies for a job as a director/drama teacher at a mental hospital. He lands the job and finds himself directing a production of the Mozart opera Così fan tutte, an elaborate, demanding piece of theatre, an opera in Italian. And it is going to be performed by a cast that he must select from among the patients, who only speak English.
Spotswood (1992)
, 1h25Directed by Mark Joffe
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Bruno Lawrence, John Walton, Rebecca Rigg, Toni Collette
Rating61%
In late 1960s Melbourne, Errol Wallace (Anthony Hopkins) is a financial business consultant who we meet in the course of his being hired by the board of Durmack, an automotive component manufacturer, where he assesses a large work force redundancy and recommends major layoffs.
Grievous Bodily Harm (1988)
, 1h36Directed by Mark Joffe
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Colin Friels, Kym Gyngell, John Waters, Bruno Lawrence, Shane Briant, Sandy Gore
Rating52%
Crime reporter Tom Stewart (Colin Friels) and a cop (Bruno Lawrence) look for a deranged schoolteacher (John Waters) who goes on a murder spree while looking for the lover he thought to be dead.
Watch the Shadows Dance (1988)
Directed by Mark Joffe
Genres Action
Actors Nicole Kidman, Joanne Samuel, Vince Martin, Sean Garlick, Craig Pearce, Christopher Truswell
Rating34%
A tight-knit group of high school students studies karate with Steve Beck (Vince Martin), a former soldier in an unnamed war. They begin working at 5:00 a.m., which makes them sleepy in Sonia Spane's (Joanne Samuel) class. Spane is Beck's former lover, and she complains to him about the relentless schedule of his classes. Beck's students also engage in a mock war game at night, which is held in a factory. The losers get tagged with a fluorescent dye on their faces. When Spane sees the dye on a student's face, she interrogates them about the game, which they call "kuma".
Skin Deep (1983)
, 1h32Directed by Mark Joffe
Genres Drama
Actors David Nicholas Reyne, Carmen Duncan, Kate Fitzpatrick, James Smilie, Nicole Kidman, John Ewart
Rating46%
Barbara Kennedy is a successful business woman in the fashion and modelling industry. In the lead up to a fashion designers awards night, her boyfriend Cliff proposes to her. But then she realises that one of her own models is her illegitimate daughter, given up for adoption years earlier. She has a bitchy rival Vanessa. And a murderer is loose.
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The Man Who Sued God (2001)
, 1h42Directed by Mark Joffe
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Judy Davis, Billy Connolly, Emily Browning, Colin Friels, Wendy Hughes, Bille Brown
Roles Producer
Rating63%
Advocate Steve Myers (Billy Connolly) is a disillusioned lawyer who becomes fed-up with the perceived corruption within the judicial system. He quits the law business and buys a small fishing boat and takes up fishing for a living. His fishing boat is struck by lightning and explodes into pieces, burns and sinks. He informs his insurance company, which reviews and then subsequently declines his claim on the grounds that it is not liable as his fishing boat was destroyed due to an "Act of God".