Cut Snake

Cut Snake

You can hide your past. You can never escape it.

2015 · 94 min · ★ 6.2 · Drama, Crime, Romance

Set in Melbourne in the mid-1970s is the story of Sparra Farrell, a very private man in his twenties who is trying to make a life for himself in a new city. He has found honest work and becomes engaged to the beautiful Paula. But the prospect of his new life is challenged when the charismatic Pommie tracks him down. Sparra finds himself drawn back into a world that he thought he had left behind.

Directed by Tony Ayres · Written by Blake Ayshford

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