Originally made as an Australian TV mini-series, director Jane Campion's award-winning drama vividly depicts the troubled life of acclaimed New Zealand writer Janet Frame, from her impoverished family life and the drowning deaths of her sisters to aneight-year stay in a mental hospital when she was wrongly diagnosed as schizophrenic. Kerry Fox stars as Frame; with Alexia Keogh, Iris Churn. 158 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English; audio commentary by Campion; "making of" documentary; interview; theatrical trailer.
