Tommy, played by Dan Spielman, lives and breathes music; he\'s left his mother, Kerry Armstrong, kid sister, Emma, Abbie Cornish, and girlfriend Alysse, Leeanna Walsman, behind in Melbourne while he studies at the Royal College of Music in London - so he\'s away when Emma, celebrating her 17th birthday with Alysse at a dance club, ODs on pure heroin in mistake for ecstasy. Returning home, Tommy blames Alysse, driving her into the arms of club-owner and drug dealer Hector, Andrew Howard. Paul Currie\'s debut feature indicates a lot of talent and a prodigiously inventive visual sense.
One Perfect Day explores the passion young people have for music, and the popularity of the dance scene, with a great deal of style and precision and, interestingly enough, it comes down strongly against the use of recreational drugs: Emma\'s death was a direct result of this. The film is less successful in its portrayal of the diabolical Hector, whose character is on the lurid side, but this flaw apart there\'s much to admire, not least in the acting of the young cast. And Kerry Armstrong, as the grieving mother, is, as she usually is, extraordinary.
One Perfect Day explores the passion young people have for music, and the popularity of the dance scene, with a great deal of style and precision and, interestingly enough, it comes down strongly against the use of recreational drugs: Emma\'s death was a direct result of this. The film is less successful in its portrayal of the diabolical Hector, whose character is on the lurid side, but this flaw apart there\'s much to admire, not least in the acting of the young cast. And Kerry Armstrong, as the grieving mother, is, as she usually is, extraordinary.
