When a sultry torch singer falls for a sinister rock musician, she is pulled into a dark underworld of crime and corruption. As her fascination with her criminal lover grows so does the danger, and she is caught in a brutal shutdown between a psychotic blackmailer and a determined cop.
SYNOPSIS
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On a sweltering night, WENDY LYALL (Santha Press – Evil Angels, Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train) sings a sultry ballad in a smoky jazz bar. Pouring heart and soul into the song, her eyes search the club desperately for a man who’s not there. Later, the bar closed, her work for the night finished, she walks down an alley. Alone. Is someone following? She hurries to her car. Safe at last, she thinks, but someone’s there.
It’s MACK (Hugo Race – Dog’s in Space and singer in the rock band, The Wreckery). Mack’s a singer with a rock band and a small time criminal. But he’s determined to make it big, on stage or off. Wendy orders him out of her car. He doesn’t leave and she doesn’t fight. She can’t help herself. He’s everything she isn’t. Manipulative. Violent. Cruel. Charismatic. After seeing Mack sing one time, Wendy’s hooked, obsessed.
Wendy takes Mack home with her. He treats her roughly. He toys with her. He makes her beg him to make love to her, and then he leaves. He comes and goes as he pleases. He can read her like a book; he plays her like a piano.
Two cops are tailing Mack everywhere he goes. MILES (John Flaus – Newsfront, Bodily Harm, Strikebound) is in his 50’s. He’s been around long enough to want to play be his won rules. He’s also a jazz fanatic who’s kept an eye on Wendy. He’s watched her grow. As a singer. As a woman. He likes what he’s seen, maybe likes it too much.
Miles and his younger brother, DINNY (Dominic Sweeney – The Jigsaw, The Clinic, Future Schlock) are investigating a corruption scandal. Some major politicians are already implicated. Some police too. Dinny thinks Miles may be one of the crooked ones. And Mack, the small time hoodlum, is in the thick of it, the big time at last.
Despite her better judgement, the more Wendy suffers from Mack, the more obsessed she becomes. He humiliates her in front of her 15-year old sister JO (Rebekah Elmaloglou – Mad Max III, Emma, Five Times Dizzy) who has also grown dangerously fascinated with Mack. He make love to Wendy by a roadside in full view of passers-by. She learns he’s planning to rob a bank, and she arranges to be inside the bank when his gang arrives, in order to be searched and roughed up like any other of his victims.
In the tradition of Body Heat and 9 Weeks, In Too Deep is a psychological thriller that explores some of the darker, more forbidden dimensions of human sexuality while weaving an intricately complex intrigue of urban crime and corruption. Stylishly realized with the look of an elegantly modern film noir, In Too Deep is co-produced and co-directed by John Tatoulis and Colin South and is the first feature film from Media World, one of Australia’s most innovative and adventurous television companies. |
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CAST AND CREW
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Produced and Directed by
JOHN TATOULIS
COLIN SOUTH
Associate Producers
DEBORAH PARSONS
PETER BAIN-HOGG
Screenplay by
DEBORAH PARSONS
Directors of Photography
MARK GILFEDDER
PETER ZAKHAROV
Production Design
PHIL CHAMBERS
Original Music
TASSOS IOANNIDES
Editors
MICHAEL COLLINS
NICOLAS LEE
Featuring
HUGO RACE
SANTHA PRESS
REBEKAH ELAMLOGLOU
JOHN FLAUS
DOMINIC SWEENEY
AWARDS
ACS Awards - Gold Award for cinematography
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