The Rage in Placid Lake

Infobox_Film
name = The Rage in Placid Lake

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caption = Movie Poster
director = Tony McNamara
writer = Tony McNamara
starring = Ben Lee
Rose Byrne
Miranda Richardson
Garry McDonald
released= 2003
runtime = 89 min
country = Australia
language =English
imdb_id = 0305999|

"The Rage in Placid Lake" (2003) is an Australian film starring Ben Lee and Rose Byrne. It is about Placid Lake (Lee), a seventeen year old boy who has led a suburban hippy life with his free loving parents. The film documents his journey of self-discovery as he rejects his hippy roots and embraces the mundane by working for an insurance agency - much to his parents' horror.

Plot

Precocious, bohemian teenager Placid Lake finishes high school and decides to do the one thing that will annoy his new age parents the most - to go conservative. With a few weeks spent reading a library of self-help manuals, Lake gets a haircut, bespoke suit, and gets a white collar job working for an insurance agency. Lake has a smart friend Gemma (played by Byrne) who tries to talk him out of his newly found economic rationalism.

External links

*imdb title|id=0305999|title=The Rage in Placid Lake
* [http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=Number%3A566139;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 The Rage In Placid Lake at the National Film and Sound Archive]