Abbie Cornish as: Mickey Norris
Other Cast: Susie Porter, Kelly McGillis
Production Status: Released
Release Date: May 10, 2001 (Australia)
Directed By: Samantha Lang
Screenwriters: Anne Kennedy & Dorothy Porter
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Adaptation / Crime / Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Studio: Canal+
When a poetry student named Mickey (Abbie Cornish) disappears in Sydney, Australia, her hire Jill (Susie Porter), a lesbian private investigator, to find her. The case plunges Jill deep into Sydney's poetry scene, where she meets and falls for Diana (Kelly McGillis), a poetry lecturer who also happens to be one of Jill's suspects. Jill is soon hurled into a passionate liison, and with Diana as her guide, she investigates the seamy underworld of Mickey's life, looking for clues to the murder. Blinded by passion, Jill's ethics are compromised...until her own life is in danger.
Trivia & Facts
• Filming Locations:
Sydney, Australia
Quotes from Abbie Cornish
• coming soon
Quotes from her Character
• "Love is a torture - love tortures me. Does love torture you? If it does, why are you laughing? I feel you in the room like a knife. You cut out my cunt, so why not cut out my heart? Your prick is a knife that hurts me. You grunt like a beautiful pig."
• "I wish my cunt could hurt you."
Quotes from the Film
• Jill Fitzpatrick: "There's no drink to take away the taste of a fresh face rotting."
Quotes from Others
From Critics
• "The Monkey's Mask is an unusual film, well made and acted though it falls short as a crime thriller. Its success as eroticism is up to you."
- DVD Times
Staff Comments
Coming soon - Riikka
While I liked Abbie's character a lot, and she certainly was the driving element in the story, whenever the film moved back to the focus of the lead detective and her life I felt bored, but on the one hand it was a decent suspense story but had too much drama. While I'm still not for sure on if I liked the movie or not, I can tell you there are several reasons to see it. For one, We see Ms. Cornish as a fierce teenager, with dark hair and throughout the film her story is told in photographs and video camera footage where we are treated to lots of childhood pictures of Abbie that are very cute! Abbie also manages to create a character you really care for and are interested in with just one major scene, there is a lot of passion in the tellings of Mickey's poetry which are scattered throughout the movie. Not an easy task - and this just being her second film you can really see all her talent! The movie might not be the most entertaining but any fan of Abbie Cornish's will really be intrigued by her and the character of Mickey Norris, which makes it worth a viewing one day. ;)" - Mycah
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