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THE ROYAL HOTEL

By Kitty GREEN

Drama - Completed 2023

Festivals
& Awards

Telluride FF 2023

Toronto - TIFF 2023

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Drama, Female director, Thriller
- Countries
- AUSTRALIA
- Director(s)
- Kitty GREEN
- Cast
- Julia GARNER, Jessica HENWICK, Hugo WEAVING, Toby WALLACE
- Producer(s)
- Liz WATTS (SEE-SAW FILMS (SYDNEY)), Emile SHERMAN (SEE-SAW FILMS (SYDNEY)), Iain CANNING (SEE-SAW FILMS (LONDON))
- Synopsis
- From the writer/director of The Assistant, THE ROYAL HOTEL is a social thriller from one of the most exciting young voices in cinema today, inspired by true events.
  
  A social thriller inspired by true events, the film follows Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Henwick) who are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ‘The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town. Here they meet local and pub regular Matty (Wallace), Bar Owner Billy (Weaving) and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but things turn nasty when their jokes and behaviour cross the line. Soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.