Acting

Helen Mutkins

Acting credits

Olive poster
NR

Based on the true story of fiery, tempestuous actress, Olive Bodill. Soon after Olive and her actor/writer husband, Tony, celebrate their 16th wedding anniversary Olive discovers that she has a malignant breast cancer. Once so strong and independent, Olive now becomes dependent on Tony who himself relies so much on her energy and decisiveness. But with his help Olive confronts her death, and in what has been a marriage of opposites, with all the attendant difficulties, the partners are fused finally in a bond of love.

Olive

1987

The Riddle of the Stinson poster
7.2

A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins his own search, and finds the wreckage and two survivors ten days after the crash.

The Riddle of the Stinson

1988

Gorilla Girls poster
NR

The Lady Gorillas are a down-and-out basketball team from the country town of Goondi. They are at the bottom of the regional basketball ladder and are scheduled to play the last match of the season against The Sharks, who are not only at the top of the ladder, but are also mean and dirty players. There are five main players for the Lady Gorillas, and they're a hopeless lot, covering the gamut of 'social problems'. The last match of the season is about to commence, and the Lady Gorilla's coach, Graham, has no reason to think that for once, just for once, the Lady Gorillas might win!

Gorilla Girls

1997

Joh's Jury poster
7.0

Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

Joh's Jury

1993

Jilted poster
3.0

Two people who have had disastrous love affairs meet on a tropical island resort.

Jilted

1987

Weekend with Kate poster
3.3

This breezy sex comedy follows ex-journalist turned rock promoter Richard Muir (Colin Friel), who is pulled in two different directions by the women in his life -- his vivacious wife, Catherine (Catherine McClements), who wants to have a baby -- and Carla (Helen Mutkins), his ambitious mistress, who wants to have Richard.

Weekend with Kate

1990

Dear Cardholder poster
10.0

Hec, a sacked taxation clerk, seeks fame and fortune using the world of credit cards. Unfortunately for him, and the banks, he has no concept of credit card limit.

Dear Cardholder

1989

The Banjo and the Bard poster
8.0

A docudrama exploring the rivalry between bush poets A.B. "Banjo" Paterson and Henry Lawson, set in contemporary Australia.

The Banjo and the Bard

1988