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Sydney, Australia | Australia
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1995 | Kevin
Best Actor Male | 1995 | Jack
Best Supporting Actor Male | 1995 | John
Best Screenplay Adapted | 1995 | David
Best Screenplay Adapted | 1994 | David
1994 | David
Best Film | 1994 | Hal
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1994 | Deborah
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 1994 | John
Best Achievement in Sound | 1994 | Tony
Best Achievement in Editing | 1994 | Frans
Budget 2 USD
Australian screen legend Jack Thompson never saw this film as a ''gay movie''. He once said that ''its no more about homosexuality than 'Oedipus Rex' is about blindness. It's a really funny, moving and touching story about love.''
The film's screenwriter-source playwright David Stevens has said of the source material that ''the most important thing that came out of the play for me was that it actually seemed to change some people's lives. There were young gay people of both sexes who brought their parents to see the play, and the reaction we saw was very moving. And that's very rewarding. I hope the film has the same effect on people.''
For the film, Jack Thompson and John Polson both reprized their roles from an Australian stage production.
'The Sum of Us' was (David Stevens)'s third play in his 'A Currency Trilogy', and it was first produced in Australia in 1992 by the Sydney Theatre Company. This screen adaptation mimics the play's 'breaking the fourth wall' device, with direct to camera conversational asides by both Harry (Jack Thompson) and Jeff (Russell Crowe).
There is an opening joke where Jack Thompson (Harry Mitchell) whips up mashed potatoes in a saucepan on the stove. In the process he jiggles his bottom, with a peculiar smile, referencing an earlier famous scene in the picture Sunday Too Far Away (1975), where he wiggled his bare rear end in a contest with another sheep shearer. The 'Oz Movies' website states: ''There is an opening joke where Jack Thompson whips up mashed potatoes in a saucepan on the stove. In the process he jiggles his bottom, with his wry smile indicating he's aware he's referencing an earlier famous scene in the shearing picture 'Sunday Too Far Away', where he wiggled his bare backside in a competition with another shearer''. It notes ''that the film ['The Sum of Us'] could crack a referential joke about his bare bottom routine in the revival classic 'Sunday Too Far Away'.''
"Harry Mitchell: Your grandmother said that to me once. 'The greatest explorers', she said, 'are the explorers of the human heart'. Jeff Mitchell: Is that why she became a dyke? Harry Mitchell: Your grandmother was not a dyke! Jeff Mitchell: She was licking Aunt Mary's pussy for forty years, what else do you call it? Harry Mitchell: She was not a dyke! A lesbian, perhaps... You shouldn't call her names! How would you like it if I went around and called you 'pansy', 'fairy', 'poofter'? Jeff Mitchell: You do half the time! Harry Mitchell: Only when I'm annoyed with you!"
"Harry: Why don't you get the young fella another whiskey, Jeff? Greg: No, no really, I'm a two pot screamer. Jeff Mitchell: I'm a bit like that myself, two and I'm anybody's. Greg: Three and I'm everybody's. Harry: Four and I'm nobody's."
