One Perfect Day is an Australian film released in 2004.
One Perfect Day | |
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Directed by | Paul Currie |
Produced by | Paul Currie Phil Gregory |
Written by | Paul Currie Chip Richards |
Starring | Dan Spielman Leeanna Walsman Nathan Phillips Dawn Klingberg |
Music by | Josh G. Abrahams David Hobson Paul van Dyk |
Cinematography | Gary Ravenscroft |
Edited by | Amelia Ford Gary Woodyard |
Distributed by | Roadshow Entertainment (Australia) |
Release date |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Screenplay
The central character of the film is Tommy Matisse; his name combines the title of The Who's 1969 rock opera Tommy and the last name of twentieth century French painter Henri Matisse.
Tommy is a Melbourne boy studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He is a violinist and composer who hears music in unusual sources such as the ambient noises of a train in the London Underground or the chirping of crickets. He is a rebel against the traditions of classical music and displays this by bringing a homeless woman living in the Underground on stage for a concert.
A sympathetic professor decides that he is the type of innovative artist needed to revive a dying opera artform. Having shocked opera's establishment, he returns home to Melbourne on the death of his younger sister Emma, who suffers a fatal overdose after experimenting with drugs at a rave dance party. He discovers a CD of her own mixes and decides to enter the genre of electronic music to follow the path she was pursuing in the hopes of discovering more about his sister and how she became involved in this dance world. Emma's death acts as a catalyst that drives Tommy and his girlfriend Alysse apart. In despair, Alysse falls prey to a sleazy entrepreneur named Hector Lee who owns a club called Trance-Zen-Dance and who is also a drug dealer. Hector Lee has a young assistant called Trig who is a VJ, and is always getting new footage and talent.
- Dan Spielman .... Tommy Matisse
- Leeanna Walsman .... Alysse
- Kerry Armstrong .... Carolyn
- Abbie Cornish .... Emma
- Rory Williamson .... Noah
- Nathan Phillips .... Trig
- Syd Brisbane .... Hamish
- Frank Gallacher .... Malcolm
- Alex Menglet .... May
- Andrew Howard .... Hector Lee
- Nathan Wentworth .... Stevie
- Jay Smeaton ...... Party Dancer 2
- Paul Currie .... director & writer
- Chip Richards... writer
- David Hobson .... original music score composer
- Paul van Dyk... additional music score
The soundtrack was released on 15 February 2004 by Universal Music, and debuted at number forty-six on the Australian album charts in the week beginning 23 February 2004 and manage to reach to number twenty-two. The title track, sung by Lydia Denker, debuted at number thirty-five on the Australian single charts. There are two versions of the soundtrack:
- One-disc version track listing
Two-disc version track listing
- Disc 1
- Disc 2
- "The Man with the Red Face" - Laurent Garnier
- "Horsepower" - C.J. Bolland
- "Graffiti Part Two" - Stereo MC’s
- "No Transmission" - Lhb
- "To Know" - NuBreed
- "Gorecki" - Lamb
- "Just Show Me" - Grandadbob
- "Sleepwalking" - Euroboy
- "Sly-ed" - Man With No Name
- "Drop Some Drums" - (Love) Tattoo
- "One Perfect Sunrise" - Orbital Featuring Lisa Gerrard
- "One Perfect Day" (epic dance mix) - Ali Mcgregor
- "Tv Screen Memories" - David Hobson and Lisa Gerrard
- "Final Moments" - David Hobson
- "One Perfect Day" (orchestral mix) - David Hobson & Orchestra
- Ride - Helmut
One Perfect Day grossed $1,152,011 at the box office in Australia.
- Cinema of Australia