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Year: 2011
USA: Sony Pictures Classics
UK: Sony Pictures Releasing
Cast: Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk,
Jane Adams, Chin Han, Lusia Strus, Jesse Henderson, Victor Morris,
Colton Lasater, Austin Miller, Kyle Leatherberry, Ben Tucker
Director: Gus Van Sant
Country: USA
USA: 95 mins
UK: 91mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for thematic elements and brief sensuality
UK Certificate: PG contains mild language and references to
sex, death and suicide
USA Release Date: 16 September 2011 (Limited Release - New
York and Los Angeles)
UK Release Date: 21 October 2011
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Synopsis
Annabel Cotton (Mia Wasikowska) is a terminal cancer patient with a
deep felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae’s (Henry
Hopper) changed irrevocably when his parents were killed in an
accident and he has since dropped out of the business of living.
When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an
unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world.
For Enoch, it includes his best friend Hiroshi (Ryō Kase) who
happens to be the ghost of a Kamikaze fighter pilot. For Annabel, it
involves an admiration of Charles Darwin and an interest in how
other creatures live. On learning that Annabel has little time left,
Enoch offers to help her face her last days with an irreverent
abandon, tempting fate, tradition and even death itself.
Directed by Gus Van Sant, RESTLESS follows Annabel and Enoch’s
complex and moving journey together as it culminates in their
acceptance of themselves. The relationships they share with their
friends, families and each other teach them their greatest lessons
of all - that every end begets its own kind of rebirth, and love is
deathless.
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