Bliss (1985)

6.8	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Ray Lawrence

Starring (View all)

Barry Otto
Harry / Husband

Lynette Curran
Bettina / Wife

Gia Carides
Lucy / Daughter

Bryan Marshall
Adrian Clunes

Kerry Walker
Alice Dalton

Saskia Post
Harry's Daughter

Nique Needles
Ken McLaren

Tommy Dysart
De Vere

Written by

Ray Lawrence
(screenplay)

Peter Carey
(screenplay)

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13 years, 9 months ago at Jul 17 17:11

audrey dobbs

1985's BLISS received the australian academy award for best picture--but the film has the capacity to provoke rapture or rage--or incredulity--for BLISS is a savage condemnation of western life, and it condemns in terms both wildly comic, and deeply repulsive. as the film opens, advertising executive harry joy (barry otto) suffers a heart attack at a dinner party and DIES. as paramedics struggl... read more

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An advertising executive has a heart attack and seems to survive, except his life is different now in tormented ways. When he sees that his wife is cheating on him, his children are drug addicts and prostitutes, and his clients are polluters, he tries to live a more moral life.

Release date: 19 September 1985