Director: Carl Schultz 
Screen Writers: Sumner Locke Elliott and Michael Jenkins  
Producer: Jill Robbi 
Starring:  Wendy Hughes, Robyn Nevin, Nicholas Gledhill, John Hargreaves, Geraldine Turner, Isabelle Anderson, Peter Whitford, Colleen Clifford, Edward Howell, Jacqueline Kott, Julie Nihill, Michael Long, Len London, Beth Child, Colin Croft, Virginia Portingale, Pega Williams, Kylie Burgess, Tony Blanchard, Steve Fifield, Norman Kaye (Mr. Pygram not listed in credits)
 
SYNOPSIS AND REVIEW:

This Australian film has earned 8 Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress. From the back of the video box: "Set in the 1930s, this powerful, intelligent drama centers on the bitter fight between two sisters over the custody of their 6y year old nephew. The boy, nicknamed 'PS,' has been raised by his Aunt Lila, an asthmatic suburban housewife who regars the lad her own. But suddenly rich, beautiful Aunt Vanessa removes PS to a sprawling seaside mansion so she can mold him into an elegant gentleman. Each determined to have the boy, both women resort to deceitful manipulation and cruel lies, with the young, innocent PS caught in the middle. Nearly consumed by the conflict, PS is finally offered salvation by the father he's never known, a drunken adventurer still grieving over the death of his wife. Sparked by an effective cast that includes some of Australia's top actors, here is a sensitive, poignant story that portrays the heart-tugging dilemma of a child struggling with a grown-up world turned topsy-turvy as adults behave like children to get what they want. 
Surely one of the best modern films about childhood, this swept the Australian Academy Awards and remains a thrilling film experience. When a young boy is left orphaned, his two aunts wage a bitter custody war over him. We see the adults' actions from the boy's point of view, with all the wonder, confusion, and naive wisdom such an outlook would provide. The events have a wry edge even in tragedy and remain gripping even in happiness. Stay tuned through the final credits for one of the best epilogues in film history. 

Wendy Hughes plays the dark side of Auntie Mame, and she is both entrancing and repulsive, ludicrous and heartbreaking.  The late John Hargreaves delivers a shattering cameo, and young Nicholas Gledhill deserves to be named in the company of Jean-Pierre Leaud, Anton Glanzelius, and Haley Joel Osment. The child's-eye direction is never less than astonishing, while the cinematography and music are gorgeous enough to take your breath away. If you thought the squabble over Elian Gonzalez was great drama, wait till you see this!