JILTED
Director: Bill Bennett
Feature film | AUS | 1988
92 min
31st Hof International Film Festival
1997
Al is a chef working at a resort on a wild and isolated island. He’s having a convenient affair with Cindy, one of the waitresses. She wants more out of the relationship. But Al has been married before and doesn’t want to be tied down again. Paula is the resort’s accountant. Secretly she wants Bob, the manager, but resolutely refuses his advances.
Onto the island comes Harry, a woman running from a failed marriage. She’s tough, beautiful, enigmatic. She’s come to the island to fish. On Harry’s advice, Paula takes the initiative with Bob, with disastrous consequences. And Harry and Al, despite themselves, fall in love. Then someone arrives on the island to upset it all …