| Uniform Title |
Standing up for Sunny (Motion picture : 2019) |
| Title |
Standing up for Sunny. |
| Published |
Australia : Distributed by Madman Entertainment, ©2018. |
| Description |
1 DVD-video (105 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Notes |
Catalogued from container. |
| Madman Entertainment : MMA6432. |
| Originally produced in Australia and released as a motion picture in 2018. |
| "Love is a funny thing" -- Cover. |
| Credits |
Written and directed by Steve Vidler. |
| Performers |
RJ Mitte, Philippa Northeast, Italia Hunt, Radha Mitchell, Barry Humphries. |
| Summary |
Breaking Bad's RJ Mitte stars in this charming Australian rom-com about a loner with cerebral palsy who is roped into helping a comedian (Philippa Northeast) overcome her shyness. Mitte, who has cerebral palsy in real life, gives a winning performance as Travis, a young man living in a ramshackle Sydney rental whose disability contributes to his social isolation and anger management issues. When he loses his maintenance job after lashing out at bullies, Travis ends up in a pub, where he puts his withering sarcasm to good use defending Sunny a reluctant up-and-comer on the comedy circuit from a sexist heckler. Soon Mikey (Sam Reid), the pub's owner and Sunny's overbearing boyfriend, hires Travis to help train Sunny in the art of the comeback, and naturally sparks ensue along with romance and laughs aplenty. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : MA15+. |
| System details |
DVD video, Dolby Digital 5.1/2.0, Region 4, PAL, anamorphic widescreen 16:9. |
| Language note |
English. [CC] English Captions [descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired]. |
| Subjects |
Comedians -- Drama |
| Stand-up comedy -- Drama |
| Cerebral palsy -- Drama |
| Discrimination -- Drama |
| Loneliness -- Drama |
| Marginality, Social -- Drama |
| Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Drama |
| Man-woman relationships -- Drama |
| Feature films -- Australia |
| Motion pictures, Australian |
| Genre |
Comedy films |
| Romance films |
| Romantic comedy films |
| Feature films |
| Fiction films |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
| Other Names |
Vidler, Steven, 1960- director, screenwriter. |
| Mitte, R. J. actor. |
| Northeast, Philippa actor. |
| Hunt, Italia actor. |
| Mitchell, Radha actor. |
| Humphries, Barry, 1934- actor. |
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