Nitram (2021)

★ 6.9 1h 52m 203 votes IMDb
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Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitting in. As his anger grows, he begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most heinous of acts.

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Caleb Landry Jones
Caleb Landry Jones as Nitram Age 36 · Garland, Texas, USA Caleb Landry Jones (born, December 7, 1989) is an American actor and musician. He is known for his roles as Banshee in X-Men: First Class (2011), Jeremy Armitage in Get Out (2017), Red Welby in Three...
Judy Davis
Judy Davis as Mother Age 71 · Perth, Western Australia, Australia Judy Davis (born 23 April 1955) is an Australian actress. In a career spanning over four decades of both screen and stage, she has been commended for her versatility and regarded as one of the finest...
Anthony LaPaglia
Anthony LaPaglia as Dad Age 67 · Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Anthony LaPaglia (/ləˈpɑːliə/, Italian pronunciation: [laˈpaʎʎa]; born 31 January 1959) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his role as Jack Malone in the television drama Without a Trace (20...
Sean Keenan
Sean Keenan as Jamie Age 33 Sean Keenan was born on January 18, 1993 in Australia. He is an actor, known for Lockie Leonard (2007), Wake in Fright (2017) and Glitch (2015)..
Essie Davis
Essie Davis as Helen Age 56 · Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Essie Davis is an Australian actress. Born and raised in Hobart, Tasmania, she is the daughter of locally famed artist George Davis. She emerged from the Old Nick Company at the University of Tasmania...
Lucy-Rose Leonard
Lucy-Rose Leonard as Girl in the Bar Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Lucy-Rose Leonard was born in Melbourne, Victoria. She trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London and Victorian College of the Arts. After graduating RADA, she played Helen of Troy in the Sam Wa...

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CinemaSerf 7/10 Jul 05, 2022
Caleb Landry Jones is really good as the eponymous character in this well told story of the build up to the worst gun-crime atrocity in Australian history. As the title may suggest, this young man has some mental health issues that his peers have enjoyed ridiculing over the years and that his parents Judy Davis and Anthony LaPaglia have spent some time trying to manage - and that's not been an easy task. He wants to learn to surf, but to buy a board he needs cash so starts his own lawn-cutting enterprise. He asks an eccentric, but wealthy, local woman "Helen" (Essie Davis) if he can cut her lawn but his mower breaks down so she asks him to walk her dogs instead. The pair start to bond over some Gilbert & Sullivan, and after a row with his long suffering mother he moves in and the pair plan a trip to Los Angeles together. Tragedy strikes before they can go, and he finds himself inheriting her wealth. This benefaction comes too late to stop another family tragedy but it does enable him to fund an unhealthy obsession with (very easily obtained) semi-automatic guns! Judy Davis offers a fine and nuanced performance here as his truly conflicted mother and Essie Davis is also really quite effective as his dog-loving friend who accepts him unreservedly. The film is presented as if these seemingly unrelated scenarios were a sequence of precariously stacked dominoes. Once one tumbles, there is an inevitability that "Nitram" will lose what little grasp he has and resort to something shocking - though perhaps not quite this! It is not a cheery film, indeed it is quite depressing to watch for much of the latter stages once hope has been well and truly extinguished from the young man's life; but it is most certainly worth watching if you are in the mood for something challenging.

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