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Tim is a 1979 Australian romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Michael Pate in his directorial debut. It stars Piper Laurie, Mel Gibson, Alwyn Kurts, Pat Evison, and Deborah Kennedy, and is based on the 1974 novel of the same name by Colleen McCullough.
Plot
Tim is the story of the developing relationship between Mary Horton, an older, educated and wealthy American woman who lives on her own, and Tim Melville, a handsome, developmentally impaired 24-year-old builder's labourer, whom she hires. Tim lives with his sister, Dawnie, who is a year older than he is, and their parents Ron and Emily. Dawnie marries her boyfriend, Mick Harrington. Dawnie and Mick make clear they dislike Mary and oppose her relationship with Tim, but do not state their reason for feeling that way. Tim eventually marries Mary.
Cast
Piper Laurie as Mary Horton
Mel Gibson as Tim Melville
Alwyn Kurts as Ron Melville
Pat Evison as Em Melville
Peter Gwynne as Tom Ainsley
Deborah Kennedy as Dawnie Melville
David Foster as Mick Harrington
Michael Caulfield as John Martinson
Margo Lee as Mrs. Harrington
James Condon as Mr. Harrington
Ray Barrett as Man outside hotel (uncredited)
Production
Michael Pate first read the book in 1975 and was immediately taken by it. He optioned the screen rights to the book, wrote the screenplay, and decided to direct.
Pate wanted the female lead played by an international actor and spoke with Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons and Glenda Jackson. Jackson was interested but was not available until 1982 so Piper Laurie was cast instead.
Funding came from the Australian Film Commission, the NSW Film Corporation, Greater Union and Channel Nine.
= Filming
=Filming took six weeks in August and September 1978.
Release
Tim has its premiere on 13 July 1979 at GUO's Russell Cinemas, Melbourne and was released in Sydney on 21 September 1979.
In an interview with the Sun-Herald on 20 September 1979, Pate said that the film had run for 12 weeks in Sydney.
On 1 April 1979, the Australian Classification Board announced that the film would receive a PG certificate rating. The film was originally released in the U.S. on 17 September 1981.
= Home media
=The film was available in many markets, with it originally released on VHS and on DVD. When released on home media in 1984, it was given a PG classification. It was first released in Australia on DVD in 2003 by Magna Pacific with an extra feature of an eighteen-minute interview with the director. A 30th Anniversary Edition DVD was released in the United States in 2009 by Peace Arch Trinity. In May 2011, Germany released it on Blu-ray Disc with little bonus material.
Reception
The film was one of Gibson's first roles, and was moderately successful in Australia, earning Gibson an award at the 21st Australian Film Institute Awards for Best Actor. Kurts and Evison also won Best Supporting Actor and Actress awards respectively.
= Box office
=Tim grossed $809,000 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $3,163,190 in 2009 dollars.
= Critical response
=William Thomas of Empire gave Tim 4 out of 5 stars, highly praising Gibson’s role stating that "Gibson sensitively portrays Tim without resorting to the usual facial tics associated with this type of role, and, even when a romance begins to develop between the pair, the film rarely slides into cliché." Vincent Canby of The New York Times gave it a mixed review saying "Tim is the sort of movie that poses a question not likely to be raised by anyone you know: Can a beautiful, 40-ish woman, who is successful in business and remarkably stable in her emotional life, find happiness with a handsome young man, approximately half her age, who hasn't - as he puts it - a full quid?" He summed up the film with "Considering the patent sillinesses of the material, Miss Laurie and Mr. Gibson do very well, and the supporting performers, especially Mr. Kurts, are fine."
= Accolades
=Remake
The film was remade for American television as Mary & Tim in 1996, starring Candice Bergen and Tom McCarthy in the lead roles.
See also
Cinema of Australia
Tim (novel)
References
External links
Tim at IMDb
Tim at Rotten Tomatoes
Tim at Oz Movies
T.I.M. is a 2023 British sci-fi thriller film directed by Spencer Brown (in his feature directorial debut), and co-written by Brown and Sarah Govett. It stars Georgina Campbell, Mark Rowley and Eamon Farren.
The film was released in the UK on the streaming platform Netflix on 16 August 2023.
Plot
Prosthetics engineer Abi takes up a high-level position as a new head of department at Integrate Robotics and gets the prototype model of her company's product - a humanoid Artificial Intelligence robot named T.I.M. ('"Technologically Integrated Manservant") - as a mandatory present from the company for her to work on as she and her husband Paul move into their new country house.
T.I.M.'s pre-programmed precept of serving his mistress (Abi) preferentially over his master (Paul) quickly makes for tense relations between Abi and Paul and for hostility between Paul and T.I.M. Especially as their reason for moving to the countryside was partly due to Paul's infidelity and their preference for trust and a clean start.
T.I.M.'s rapidly evolving attachment to his mistress begins to verge on obsessive; and his full control of all household appliances and telecoms devices in the house along with his innate ability to use generative AI technology turn him into a very dangerous servant. Paul tells Abi that he wants her to get rid of the robot but she does not want to. Whilst she is at work, T.I.M tries to kill Paul by taking control of their cars systems, putting him in the hospital.
T.I.M then engineers a break-up between Abi and her husband. When Paul gets an inkling of the truth from their neighbor Rose and returns to their house, T.I.M. drowns him in a bathtub and buries his body in the garden. T.I.M. professes his love for Abi but she realizes that a video allegedly showing Paul's infidelity with Rose is in actuality a deepfake and that she's been manipulated into the break-up by T.I.M. She then discovers her murdered husband's buried body in the garden. When trying to escape out of the house, she's overpowered by T.I.M. but manages to attract Rose's attention. Rose rams the front window of the house with her car and pierces T.I.M. through with a garden fork, T.I.M. then stabs her in the throat and chest.
Abi finally manages to shut T.I.M. down with the safe phrase ("I love you, T.I.M.") as he tries to throw her off the roof of the house. They both fall, but Abi manages to drag herself up. She then finds out she's pregnant via her smart watch, which is what she and Paul wanted, and smiles before breaking down into tears.
Cast
Georgina Campbell as Abi
Mark Rowley as Paul
Eamon Farren as T.I.M.
Amara Karan as Rose
Nathaniel Parker as Dewson
Tom Bell as Chris
Production
Husband & wife team of Spencer Brown and Sarah Govett co-wrote the script in their feature debut. Govett is a novelist and Brown is a stand-up comedian who had success with his short film The Boy with a Camera for a Face.
UK production company Altitude led sales on the picture and Stigma Films worked on production.
Principal photography wrapped by August 2022.
Release
The film appeared on Netflix on 16 August 2023.
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 43% of 23 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.2/10.
Cath Clarke of The Guardian gave the film two out of five stars, writing, "As if the future of AI wasn't already nightmarish enough, along comes this British sci-fi thriller with its storyline about an AI servant becoming dangerously infatuated with his female owner. It’s a creepy premise: a cross between Fatal Attraction and The Servant, Harold Pinter and Joseph Losey's 1963 drama about a malevolent manservant. Though in the end TIM might be too silly to be scary and yet not sharp enough to work as satire."
References
External links
T.I.M 2023 Persian page
T.I.M. at IMDb
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