Richard Brennan

Production

Richard Brennan

Born

1943-06-24 (83)

Place of birth

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Known for

Production

Credits

11 titles

Richard Brennan (born 24 June 1943) is an Australian producer. In 2003, he became a project manager with the Australian Film Commission.

Known for

Spotswood poster
5.4

Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.

Spotswood

1992

Homesdale poster
5.4

At a remote guest house known as Homesdale, a group of visitors find themselves subjected to strange rituals, psychological games, and increasingly cruel entertainments devised by the lodge’s staff. As the weekend unfolds, the tensions and obsessions each guest has brought with them begin to surface.

Homesdale

1971

Cosi poster
6.2

Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients, who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart, despite the fact that none of the patients can sing or speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.

Cosi

1996

Not Quite Hollywood poster
6.8

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.

Not Quite Hollywood

2008

Starstruck poster
5.4

A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.

Starstruck

1982

Grievous Bodily Harm poster
5.0

A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.

Grievous Bodily Harm

1988

Film credits

Behind the camera

Spotswood poster
5.4

Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.

Spotswood

1992

Cosi poster
6.2

Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients, who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart, despite the fact that none of the patients can sing or speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.

Cosi

1996

Starstruck poster
5.4

A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.

Starstruck

1982

Grievous Bodily Harm poster
5.0

A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.

Grievous Bodily Harm

1988

The Last of the Ryans poster
8.0

Ron Ryan is accused of a murder he did not commit. As his family races to prove his innocence, he and a priest aim for redemption.

The Last of the Ryans

1997

Stir poster
6.6

Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.

Stir

1980

Double Sculls poster
9.0

A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.

Double Sculls

1986