Look Both Ways Page #2

Synopsis: On a Friday after a horrific train crash, three newsmen in Adelaide must take stock: Nick, a photojournalist, learns he has cancer; Andy, a writer with two children who has a bad relationship with his ex, learns his girlfriend Anna is pregnant; Phil, an editor, realizes he's missing his children's growing up. That afternoon, Meryl, an artist who illustrates sympathy cards and constantly imagines disasters, witnesses a train accident kill a man. At the crash site, she meets Nick, and a relationship flowers over the next three days which makes them both question their lives, wants and needs. Nick's mother, Andy's kids and ex, the dead man's girlfriend, the driver of the train, and his son round out an ensemble of grief and sorrow as each character becomes linked to another through the train accident. Can decisions to act bring hope?
Director(s): Sarah Watt
Production: Kino International
  22 wins & 19 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
PG-13
Year:
2005
100 min
Website
690 Views


No.

I'm sure he'll be pretty happy about it,

but you made me look like an idiot.

This is not about you, Andy.

- What's the matter with you?

- There is nothing matter with me.

Good!

Don't worry about me. I'm

not the kind of guy...

to jump in front of a

bloody train any time soon.

I've still got important

meaningful relevant work to do.

I've got bloody arts story!

Not even a good photo.

Have you told him?

I'm...

Going to the hospital tomorrow.

I've just got a bit of a...

lump

They got to cut it out.

Jesus.

Hi.

It's a good photo.

I'm sorry.

if we... me and Andy,

he was the journalist,

I was with, if we...

if we upset you yesterday.

That's OK.

I suppose everyone has to witness

something ghostly one day.

You know,

your fifteen minutes of blah.

Yeah, I guess.

On your way home from a funeral.

Your dad.

Sorry.

You weren't to know.

Was he sick?

Your dad.

No, he just...

turned to say something

to mom, then fell over.

dead before he hit the ground.

Spent the morning watching the cricket.

It's a good way to go.

Mom wants to know what

he was going to say.

You know, maybe he was

going to say something nice.

But it's good to know

that he didn't suffer.

Did you want something?

No,

I don't know, no...

I was going for a run.

It was nice to see you again.

Probably see you tomorrow.

Sorry?

You know,

It's like when you buy a car...

and then you see them

everywhere all the time.

Yes, right.

I didn't realize you were home.

I just came to feed the fish.

- Did you just spill that?

- Yes.

Is that new?

It's great.

How was home?

Did you meet any nice men?

It was my dad's funeral!

Ah, yeah.

So,

You're OK?

Yeah.

Yes, I'm OK, I just...

hate my job.

Yes, right.

Try working in the front line welfare

when you're seven months pregnant,

and your supervisor thinks

scorch or plaster...

just don't motivate it.

And then you get this

phone call from hospital...

saying you've got high blood pressure.

And that you're going

to have to be induced.

So you spend the next

six agonizing hours

thinking that you're

going to have a baby...

smaller than your own hand.

until they ring and say "Oops, oh sorry,

wrong person." and

you think "Fantastic!"

Until you realize, of course,

that IS actually someone.

Don't get me started.

I read your stars this morning,

they're very good. Listen to this:

Cancer:
contrary to your usual belief,

you do hold fate in your own hands.

Cancer's always crap,

what's Leo? They're

always having good time.

I saw that guy get run over yesterday.

Which guy?

That girl's guy.

You saw that?

You saw it.

That's awful.

Did you get cantsleep?

- It's not as if I knew him.

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Sarah Watt

Sarah Ann Watt (30 August 1958 – 4 November 2011) was an Australian film director, writer and animator. Born in Sydney, Watt completed a Graduate Diploma of Film and Television (Animation) at the Swinburne Film and Television School (now Victorian College of the Arts), Melbourne in 1990. Her student film "Catch of the Day" was to reflect the style of future work. In 1995, she directed a short film, Small Treasures, which won Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival. In 2000, she made a program for the SBS series Swim Between the Flags called "Local Dive". It was made concurrently with another project that she was directing called "The Way of the Birds" based on the 1996 book of the same name by author Meme McDonald. She received the Australian Film Institute's award for Best Director for her 2005 film Look Both Ways.Watt returned to the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television to teach animation and was to assist in the development of many animators including Academy Award winner Adam Eliot in 1996. Watt was instrumental in the development of scripts for all of her students, but left the School to further develop her own projects, returning on occasion as a script and final production assessor. Watt was also a published author, she wrote and illustrated the picture book Clem Always Could and co-authored Worse Things Happen at Sea with William McInnes.During the post-production of Look Both Ways, Watt was diagnosed with cancer. Her second film My Year Without Sex was released in 2009. She died on 4 November 2011 after suffering for six years with breast and bone cancer, aged 53.Sarah Watt was married to actor William McInnes. They have two children, Clem (b. 1993) and Stella (b. 1998). more…

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