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Stephen Davis

Writing

Biography

Stephen Davis is a playwright, writer and producer born in Glasgow. After emigrating to Australia, he penned his first play, A Very Black Comedy Indeed, when he was 15 and it was published by Queensland's Playlab Press in 1989. Since then, he has been commissioned to write Burnt (2001) for Queensland Theatre Company; Scar for La Boite Theatre; Turtle Island and Wet Dogs (1999) for Barking Gecko Theatre Company; Transzitions (1996), Juice (1998) and Blurred (1999) for Queensland University of Technology; and Burnt (2001) for Central Queensland University. He is also the writer of four feature films: the Australian-Japanese co-production City Loop (2000); Blurred (2002), a film adaptation of his play; the psychological drama Monkey Puzzle (2008); and the 2015 film adaption of his play Drown.

Known For

Broken Highway
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In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is heaved out of its doldrums when a pair of mysterious strangers come visiting. In the beginning of the film, Angel is traveling with his friend Max on a ship to Honeyfield, a town on the coast of Australia. He is coming home to die. Instead, he dies on board the ship, willing his boots to Angel, and an unopened package to someone called "The Dead Man," in Honeyfield. Also on the ship is a man named Tatts, a far less pleasant personality. When Angel gets off to head into Honeyfield, Tatts decides to follow along unseen. The package, Angel was told, contains something its intended recipient has been looking for without knowing it. On finding the recipient, a mean-spirited old man who is more or less the boss and owner of the town, he learns that the package contains opium.

Broken Highway

1993Movie