Don's Party
Don's Party

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Don is a schoolteacher living with his wife Kath and baby son in suburban Melbourne. On the night of the 1969 federal election he invites a small group of friends to celebrate a predicted Australian Labor Party (ALP) election victory, much to the dismay of his wife. To the party come Mal, Don's university mentor, and his bitter wife Jenny, sex-obsessed Cooley and his latest girlfriend, nineteen-year-old Susan, Evan, a dentist, and his beautiful artist wife Kerry. Somehow, two... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Don's Party:

John Hargreaves
Graham Kennedy
Ray Barrett
Clare Binney
Graeme Blundell
Pat Bishop

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Don is a schoolteacher living with his wife Kath and baby son in suburban Melbourne. On the night of the 1969 federal election he invites a small group of friends to celebrate a predicted Australian Labor Party (ALP) election victory, much to the dismay of his wife. To the party come Mal, Don's university mentor, and his bitter wife Jenny, sex-obsessed Cooley and his latest girlfriend, nineteen-year-old Susan, Evan, a dentist, and his beautiful artist wife Kerry. Somehow, two Liberal supporters, Simon and Jody also come. As the party wears on it becomes clear that the Labor party, which is supported by Don and most of the guests, is not winning. As a result, alcohol consumption increases, and the sniping between Don and his male friends about their failed aspirations gets uglier, as does their behavior toward the women. Mack, a design engineer whose wife has just left him, pulls out a nude photo of her for his friends' approval. Crass womanizer Cooley pursues the available women. The disillusioned wives exchange tales of their husbands' sub-par sexual performance. By the end of the night, Don and some of his friends have begun to grasp the emptiness of their compromised lives.

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Washington Post - 8/10 by Gary ArnoldDon's Party owes a good measure of its comic gusto and accuracy to the impression that the filmmakers not only know these supposedly enlightened brutes but get a considerable kick out of their uncouth impulses.
Spirituality and Practice - 8/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatDon's Party reveals the silliness and immaturity of male bonding when it remains on the infantile level.
User Review - 10/10 by Ben HAustralian Gold. A movie made from a play by our most famous playwright at the top of his form. Quintessentially Australian.
User Review - 10/10 by Stephen JA work of towering genius that is sadly misunderstood by po-faced critics. Offensive on so many levels that it is hard to know where to begin, and so very evocative of the late 60s Australian beer-swilling neanderthal male that you can almost smell the stale sweat... a joy!
User Review - 8/10 by Mark WIn October 1969 the Australian Government hold an election, so Don has an election party with a few friends
User Review - 8/10 by James HWith a looming election this will get amateur pundits in the mood. Quite risque - even by today's standards - it is shockingly funny. It is also indicative of the current vibe 'It's time!' An oldie but a goodie.
User Review - 8/10 by Lee MDon's Party shows that the most culturally specific of films can have universal appeal: it's a by all accounts very accurate portrayal of a certain time and place, but we can still recognize the attitudes and people. It's a key film of the Australian film revival of the 1970s, and it's still fresh and funny to this day.
User Review - 8/10 by Art SCould have only been made in Australia. Graham Kennedy was absolutely hillarious.
User Review - 8/10 by Joseph TReally good fun, great sexual politics, and very shrewd character and societal skewerings.
User Review - 8/10 by Harry WConsidered an Aussie classic and directed by Bruce Berseford, Don's Party sounded like a nostalgic Australian movie. Based on the play of the same name, Don's Party successfully makes the transition from theatre to screen very easily. This is largely thanks to Bruce Beresford's impressive directorial work among other things. Don's Party is a really intriguing film due to a lot of reasons, and not one of them is made to seem ridiculous, farfetched, dramatised or dull. In actual fact, although Don's Party remains the utmost simplicity of a film adapted from a play, it also contains many of the complex undertones of the script. It may have a lot of characters and many themes and concepts to keep up with, but it remains all in the context of a simple story about a gathering of people at a party on the night of the 1969 Australian election. With Bruce Beresford directing, Don's Party easily maintains the subject matter and language of the play script without censoring any language or even hiding any if the nudity, be it male or female. He takes the film to its full potential and ensures that it is a worthy and thought provoking experience which remains strong even in the many decades that have followed since the release of the film. It remains relevant largely because of the context in which the film was produced. Set in 1969 and released in 1976, Don's Party consistently falls into place as being a film from the counterculture era which it fits the profile of easily due to its time frame and the subject matter. The characters in the film act upon behaviour which today would not be considered the appropriate social norm with reckless nudity and defiance of monogamy all in the events of one night and one location. The tale benefits fro m the political backdrop of its setting and an interesting contrast of characters who all discuss interesting concepts. The screenplay in the film is strong because it deals with themes that any viewer can keep up with but remains hilarious enough to maintain consistency as a good Australian comedy. The way that Don's Party approaches edgy subject matter and deals with it in a manner which leaves audiences thinking and laughing about ideas such as monogamy, politics or even defecation. Don's Party stands up as a simple yet funny and intelligent film which is rich with Aussie charm. Like with many Australian films from the prior decades, Don's Party is elevated by the fact that it depicts the nature of general Australian social society, and so it is bound to strike entertainment with viewers of the homeland because Bruce Beresford once again proves that he knows what viewers want and respects them enough not to shy away from handling the material with truth and creativity. I'll admit that Don's Party is not perfect because the plot is limited and there are quite a few characters to keep up with, but the main thing that I got from it is that the 1960's were a turning point for society in Australia as well as the rest of the world while the 1970's were a good step forward for our cinematic culture. There is a lot of progress in Don's Party, and so it is absolutely grand viewing even for its most simple values. Don's Party is an example of how far a film can go simply on the basis of its writing in a limited setting, and it maintains the feel of a play without ever conveying a sense that it is limited by the fact it is adapted from a play script. Bruce Beresford's work on the film is just brilliant, so it is one of his best earliest pieces with his directorial work being of AFI award calibre. And the cast in Don's Party have no problem bringing the spirit alive. Of all the cast members, the funniest actor in Don's Party is Harold Hopkins. The instant he walks into the story and delivers the line "G'day c*ntpeaches", he just lights up the screen. There are so many cast members in Don's Party who generate laughter, but none of them reach the level of success maintained by Harold Hopkins. He is consistently over the top with his energy without ever transitioning into ridiculous territory, and he keeps the laughter going by never stepping out of his overconfident and arrogant persona. He is a very welcome member of the cast in Don's Party. Graham Kennedy does a great job as well. With Don's Party giving him a role which has both comedic and subtle dramatic value, Graham Kennedy takes the opportunity and runs with it by delivering a performance befitting to the role in the way that he shows off a saddened sense of loss which remains restrained to play second fiddle to a general sense of comic energy in him. He is a sympathetic character who also succeeds in bringing laughter to the viewers, meaning that he ties into the dramatic and comedic nature of Don's Party really well. John Hargreaves works well at the heart of the film as the titular Don Henderson, dealing with some edgy situations well and keeping the laughter alive with his drunken antics as he loses his inhibitions more and more as the tale progresses. Pat Bishop and Jeanie Drynan also do a good job of bringing a sense of drama to the film as the long suffering wives of the party drongos, and they share a strong chemistry with everyone else. Clare Binney does her part, Graeme Blundell maintains a certain sense of appropriate stiffness consistently and Candy Raymond is a capable actress. So while Don's Party may have a surplus of characters to keep up with and doesn't have a consistently developing story, the brilliant nature of the script and the strong performances of the cast under directorial work from Bruce Beresford ensures that it comes off as a complicated, edgy, timely and hilarious Australian film.

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