Cosi 1996  R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mark Joffe
Cast: Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, Toni Collette, Pamela Rabe, Jacki Weaver, Paul Chubb, Rachel Griffiths, Aden Young, Colin Friels, Colin Hay, David Wenham, Tony Llewellyn-Jones
Lewis (Ben Mendelsohn) takes a position as play director at a mental institution with the job of helping in the rehabilitation process. Inmate Roy (Barry Otto) talks Lewis into producing Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutti." A cast of wild characters from the patients is assembled, though none can sing nor speak Italian, which is the language of the play. But Lewis soon learns a lesson or two about imagination from the unlikely cast in this Australian production.
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The MatchMaker 1997  R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mark Joffe
Cast: Janeane Garofalo, David O'Hara, Jay O. Sanders, Denis Leary, Milo O'Shea, Paul Hickey, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Saffron Burrows, Rosaleen Linehan, Olivia Caffrey, Joan Sheehy, Anne Gildea, James Ryland
Marcy (Janeane Garofalo) is an aide to Massachusetts Senator McGlory (Jay O. Sanders) when she is sent to Ireland to arrange for his future visit. Her trip proves more than a little enlightening when matchmaker Dermot (Milo O'Shea) determines that Marcy should be partnered with Sean (David O'Hara).
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Spotswood 1992 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Efficiency Expert
Director: Mark Joffe
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Alwyn Kurts, Bruno Lawrence, Russell Crowe, Toni Collette, Rebecca Riggs, John Walton, Angela Punch McGregor, John Flaus, Daniel Wyllie, Jeff Truman
Efficiency expert Errol Wallace (Anthony Hopkins) utilizes cold-blooded management practices–until he becomes "humanized" by workers at an Australian family-owned moccasin factory.
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Watch the Shadows Dance 1986  R, 85 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Nightmaster
Director: Mark Joffe
Cast: Tom Jennings, Nicole Kidman, Vince Martin, Joanne Samuel, Craig Pearce, Alexander Broun, Jeremy Shadlow, Doug Parkinson
Set in the near future, teenage students study karate at night and get into the real thing when they encounter mean-spirited ninjas. Yes, Nicole Kidman was still a teen when this film was made, and despite her presence the film stinks.
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| 1. Cosi (1996)
2. The MatchMaker (1997)
3. Spotswood (1992)
aka: The Efficiency Expert
4. Watch the Shadows Dance (1986)
aka: Nightmaster
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