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Blackrock (1997)

director of photography: Martin McGrath
cast: Laurence BreulsLinda CropperSimon LyndonChris HaywoodRebecca SmartJeanette CroninDavid FieldJustine Clarke
director: Steven Vidler
running time: 90 min.
writer: Nick Enright
synopsis
In New South WalesJared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older palRickoand witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothingand the next dayshe's found murdered. At schoolthe boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetratorsthe boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silencedisgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhilehis mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgerythe police want to know what he sawand his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.