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The Everlasting Secret Family is a 1988 Australian film directed by Michael Thornhill about a secret society of gay men. It is based on Frank Moorhouse's so-named collection of four short stories published in 1980.
The movie was financed by Antony I. Ginnane's IFM company.
IFM pre-sold the movie to Hemdale Film Corporation for $1.5 million but Hemdale was later unable to meet its pre-sale obligations.




Plot


A fictional group of middle-aged homosexual men, including a senator, exercise quasi-masonic influence and power over teenage schoolboys from the fictional Saint Michael's Private School for Boys. The film follows one of these boys (called only 'Youth'), as he rises through the ranks of the secret society.




Cast


Mark Lee as Youth
John Meillon as Judge
Drew Norman as Oil Boy
Dennis Miller as Eric, the Chauffeur
Arthur Dignam as Senator
Alan Carey as Doctor at Oval
Ken Keen as Headmaster
Marcus Cornelius as Teacher at Oval
Heather Mitchell as Wife
Michael Winchester as School Teacher
Louis Nowra as Shop Assistant
Dominic Barry as Bell Captain
Paul Davies as Waiter #1
Allan Penney as Gardener
Victor Ramon as Maitre d' #1
Michael Kozuki as Mr. Akutangana
Anna Volska as Wife's Friend
Paul Goddard as Son
John Clayton as Mayor




Reviews


Janet Maslin of The New York Times in 1989 thought that the film was divided "into two halves, the first engrossing and the second ridiculous... The action becomes farfetched, the actors hopelessly unconvincing, and everyone ages so badly—thanks to too much eyebrow pencil and talcum powder—that the film winds up looking like a high-school play".
RS reviewing for Time Out stated that "All the gay characters are 'elderly pervert' stereotypes, cruel, calculating and vampirish. Yet, for a film that takes so rigidly homophobic a stance, an awful lot of time is spent dwelling on youthful tanned muscles and taut buttocks".




References






External links


The Everlasting Secret Family at IMDb
The Everlasting Secret Family at Rotten Tomatoes
The Everlasting Secret Family at Oz Movies

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