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Sandra Sciberras's The Caterpillar Wish is an emotional drama set in an Australian coastal town preoccupied with secrets, lies, infidelity, cameras, topless barmaids, alcohol, bicycles and rain, lots of rain. Actually, it's equal parts Lantana, Sons & Daughters and Soft Fruit but I'm afraid after seeing it, all I can remember are Susie Porter's eyes.
Susie plays Susan Woodbridge, mother to Emily (Victoria Thaine) who is a dull but sweet adolescent desperate to discover the identity of her father. According to her mother, dad was just a traveller (a tomcat) who wandered through town one day, they enjoyed an intimate moment and she never saw him again. Susan has no contact with her parents but Emily's curiosity leads her to hunt them down and they, in turn, lead her to believe her mother might not be telling the truth. Then there's the police chief Carl (Philip Quast) who seems to have a fondness for schoolgirls (and maybe their tunics) and is married to Elizabeth (a beautiful Wendy Hughes); they have a ridiculously handsome son called Joel (Khan Chittenden) who loves Emily.
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