| The Rage in Placid Lake | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Tony McNamara |
| Produced by | Marian McGowan |
| Written by | Tony McNamara |
| Starring | Ben Lee Rose Byrne Miranda Richardson Garry McDonald |
| Editing by | Lee Smith |
| Release date(s) | 2003 |
| Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
The Rage in Placid Lake is a 2003 Australian film starring Ben Lee and Rose Byrne. It features Placid Lake (Lee), a seventeen-year-old boy who has led a suburban hippie life with his neurotic, free loving parents. The film documents his journey of self-discovery as he rejects his hippie roots and embraces the mundane by working for an insurance agency, much to his parents' horror.
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Precocious, bohemian teenager Placid Lake finishes high school, but after having an existential crisis devises a plan to totally reinvent himself as a functioning member of society. With a few weeks spent reading a library of self-help manuals, Lake gets a haircut, bespoke suit, and gets a white collar job working for an insurance agency. Lake has a smart friend Gemma (played by Byrne) who tries to talk him out of his newly found economic rationalism.
The Rage in Placid Lake grossed $482,798 at the box office in Australia,[1].