Directed by:
Jeffrey WalkerScreenplay:
Andrew KnightCinematography:
Martin McGrathComposer:
Harry James AngusCast:
Guy Pearce, Marta Dusseldorp, Aaron Pedersen, Vadim Glowna, Colin Friels, Steve Bisley, Emma Booth, Rhys Muldoon, Heather Mitchell, Roy Billing, Thom Green (more)Plots(1)
A phone message from an ex-client – Danny McKillop (Simon Russell) – doesn't ring any bells for Jack and sends him searching through old case files and dredging up memories of the bleakest kind. Jack wasn't at the top of his game when he represented Danny ten years earlier – king hit by scotch on the rocks and the murder of his wife Isabel (Emma Booth) – Jack is amazed he managed to drag himself out of bed in the mornings let alone make it to court. Bottom line – Danny did five years for manslaughter and he might have been set up. So when Danny turns up dead, Jack feels like he has failed his ex-client twice over. Keen to set the ledger straight, Jack starts investigating Danny's death. With his ad-hoc, unorthodox, crumpled style he begins to peel back the layers that connects Danny's death to dodgy cops, drug dealers, a slimy priest and a blackmailing pornographer. The cold case turns warm when Jack meets Linda Hillier (Marta Dusseldorp), a smart, sexy investigative journalist who has a weakness for burnt-out, dishevelled, rumpled men.
Not surprisingly, representing dead clients isn't that lucrative. Jack supplements his income working for Harry Strang (Roy Billing), an old-school racing identity who has made an art out of pulling the wool over the eyes of unsuspecting bookies. Between Harry's stings, being implicated in a grotesque double murder, and mastering mortice and tenon joints under the disapproving gaze of German craftsman Charlie Taub (Vadim Glowna), Jack has more than enough to distract himself. Together Jack and Linda uncover tantalising links between Danny's hit-and-run victim and a $600 million property deal. Linda is keen to go to print with their story about shifty deals between high profile politicians and their developer mates when all hell breaks loose. The usually quiet streets of Fitzroy descend into Beirut as Jack and Linda make a desperate run for the countryside. Hidden in a rambling holiday shack is the explosive evidence that could bring down the state government. However they're not the only ones who know where it is, and retrieving it is going to prove deadly for someone. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
(more)Cast
Guy Pearce
UK
Best movies:
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Memento (2000)
The King's Speech (2010)
Marta Dusseldorp
Australia
Best movies:
Paradise Road (1997)
The Railway Man (2013)
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (TV movie)
Aaron Pedersen
Australia
Best movies:
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (TV movie)
Jack Irish: Dead Point (2014) (TV movie)
Mystery Road (2013)
Vadim Glowna
German Empire
Best movies:
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
No Place to Go (2000)
Cross of Iron (1977)
Colin Friels
UK
Best movies:
Dark City (1998)
Angel Baby (1995)
Dingo (1991)
Steve Bisley
Australia
Best movies:
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (TV movie)
Emma: Queen of the South Seas (1988) (series)
Summer City (1977)
Emma Booth
Australia
Best movies:
Tracks (2013)
The Boys Are Back (2009)
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (TV movie)
Rhys Muldoon
Australia
Best movies:
Childhood's End (2015) (series)
The Sapphires (2012)
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (TV movie)
Heather Mitchell
Best movies:
Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away (2011) (TV movie)
On the Beach (2000) (TV movie)
The Great Gatsby (2013)
Roy Billing
New Zealand
Best movies:
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Underbelly Files: Infiltration (2011) (TV movie)
Unfinished Sky (2007)
Thom Green
Best movies:
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (TV movie)
Of an Age (2022)
Andy McPhee
Australia
Best movies:
Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
Hello Herman (2012)
Fletcher Humphrys
Australia
Best movies:
The Heartbreak Kid (1993)
The Dressmaker (2015)
John Doe: Vigilante (2014)
Marshall Napier
New Zealand
Best movies:
Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here (2011) (TV movie)
The Light Between Oceans (2016)
In a Savage Land (1999)
Shane Jacobson
Australia
Best movies:
The Dressmaker (2015)
Kenny (2006)
Charlie & Boots (2009)
Damien Garvey
Best movies:
Love and Monsters (2020)
Answered by Fire (2006) (TV movie)
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (TV movie)
Anthony Hayes
Australia
Best movies:
The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
Terry Norris
Australia
Best movies:
The Dressmaker (2015)
Romulus, My Father (2007)
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (TV movie)
Damien Richardson
Best movies:
Jack Irish: Bad Debts (2012) (TV movie)
Jack Irish: Dead Point (2014) (TV movie)
Jack Irish: Black Tide (2012) (TV movie)