Bliss

"After Harry Joy dropped dead... his life was never the same again."

Feb 21 1986 R 1h 52m
Comedy, Drama

An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbera.

Plot

Harry suffers a heart attack and has a near-death experience that changes his outlook on life. His miraculous return convinces him that there is a heaven but that his life on Earth is hell. His wife Bettina has her worst fears realized when she develops brain cancer from gasoline fumes. His son David deals cocaine and receives sexual favors from his drug-addicted sister Lucy. Harry finds love with a kind-hearted prostitute "Honey Barbara" who kills a top oil-company executive, and then herself, with Molotov cocktails. Shocking scenes include cockroaches bursting from Harry's stitches after his open-heart surgery, and fish dropping from in between a woman's legs onto a restaurant floor. This bizarre and often slow-moving film lampoons the luridness of the human condition.

Written by

Ray Lawrence, Peter Carey

Directed by

Ray Lawrence

Cast

Barry Otto, Lynette Curran, Helen Jones

Crew

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Production Countries

Australia

Production Companies

Window III Productions, New South Wales Film Corp.

Languages

English

Awards

4 wins & 11 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
1,500
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA