Movies by John Polson
As part of the cast:
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Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton …
Directed by: John Woo
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically…
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Idiot Box (1996)
Cast: Ben Mendelsohn, Jeremy Sims, John Polson …
Directed by: David Caesar
Director David Caesar's dark comedy of errors revolves around hapless best friends Kev (Ben Mendelsohn) and Mick (Jeremy Sims), two unemployed losers who spend each and every day of…
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Back of Beyond (1995)
Cast: Paul Mercurio, Colin Friels, Dee Smart …
Directed by: Michael Robertson
Set in the Australian desert, this thriller tells the story of Tom McGregor (Paul Mercurio), a gas station owner who falls into despair after his sister's death. Twelve years later,…
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The Sum of Us (1994)
Cast: Jack Thompson, Russell Crowe, John Polson …
Directed by: Geoff Burton, Kevin Dowling
In this Australian comedy based on David Stevens's stage play, Jeff (Russell Crowe) is a young gay man living with his widowed father, Harry (Jack Thompson). Although Harry has always…
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Sirens (1993)
Cast: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Sam Neill …
Directed by: John Duigan
A Church of England official and his wife arrive in Australia on a mission to keep an artist from exhibiting a painting with mixed erotic and religious themes. The painter's uninhibited…
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Prisoners of the Sun (1990)
Cast: Bryan Brown, George Takei, Russell Crowe …
Directed by: Stephen Wallace
After discovering that Japanese guards tortured and massacred hundreds of Australian soldiers at a World War II internment camp, determined Australian prosecutor Capt. Cooper (Bryan Brown)…
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Tenderness (2009)
Cast: Russell Crowe, Jon Foster, Sophie Traub …
Directed by: John Polson
After completing his stint in a juvenile detention center for murder, 18-year-old Eric Poole embarks on a road trip with obsessed teen Lori Cranston. But little does the troubled pair know…
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Hide and Seek (2005)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen …
Directed by: John Polson
In this psychological thriller, widowed father David Callaway (Robert De Niro) desperately tries to prevent his disturbed 9-year-old daughter (Dakota Fanning) from slipping into insanity as…
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Swimfan (2002)
Cast: Jesse Bradford, Erika Christensen, Shiri Appleby …
Directed by: John Polson
In this thriller set in high school and told in the vein of Fatal Attraction, the new girl falls hard for a championship swimmer who hopes to be in the Olympics someday. When he doesn't…
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Siam Sunset (1999)
Cast: Linus Roache, Danielle Cormack, Ian Bliss …
Directed by: John Polson
Linus Roache stars as Perry in this quirky Australian comedy about a British paint exec who lives an otherwise colorless life but is obsessed with concocting the perfect paint color: Siam…