In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel princess, convene at her deathbed. They come to make sure they can leave Australia with their hefty inheritance.

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Cast

Geoffrey Rush

Basil Hunter

Judy Davis

Dorothy de Lascabanes

Charlotte Rampling

Elizabeth Hunter

Helen Morse

Lotte

Robyn Nevin

Lal Wyburd

Colin Friels

Athol Shreve

Dustin Clare

Col

Bille Brown

Dudley

Jane Menelaus

Maggie

Martin Lynes

Edvard

Heather Mitchell

June

Simon Stone

Peter