modmove » The Flip Side https://modmove.com Australian Entertainment and Popular Culture in Review Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:41:31 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 The Flip Side Movie Review https://modmove.com/reviews/the-flip-side-movie-review/ https://modmove.com/reviews/the-flip-side-movie-review/#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:37:20 +0000 http://modmove.com/?p=7049 Few road trips have ever been as awkward as the journey Henry, Sophie, Jeff and Ronnie embark on. Ronnie had a fling with Henry and has never told Jeff. Sophie develops a thing for Jeff but doesn’t tell Henry and nobody knows the trouble Ronnie is in.

It’s a tangled web that entraps this small group. Ronnie (Emily Taheny) once had a thing with actor Henry (Eddie Izzard) who left her and the town behind but returns five years later with obnoxious French girlfriend Sophie (Vanessa Guide). Ronnie has moved on with Jeff (Luke McKenzie) but has never spoken to him about her time with Henry. Confused? So are they.

 

 

Through circumstance they hit the road together on a trip out to the middle of the outback. They hit the sights and a kangaroo or two on the road to nowhere. The humour in the film comes from everyday actions that just miss being normal. There is a delicious tension between the four as they each follow their own agenda during the journey.

The Flip Side is a movie with modest ambitions. It features a message, that most people actually have all they need in life right in front of them by being with the ones that truly love them. This foursome however are so self involved that they hilariously miss even that simple point.

Rob Hudson
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]]> https://modmove.com/reviews/the-flip-side-movie-review/feed/ 0 Check out the new trailer for Aussie Comedy The Flip Side! https://modmove.com/news/check-out-the-new-trailer-for-aussie-comedy-the-flip-side/ https://modmove.com/news/check-out-the-new-trailer-for-aussie-comedy-the-flip-side/#comments Sat, 09 Jun 2018 16:27:06 +0000 http://modmove.com/?p=6556 Mired in debt, Ronnie (Emily Taheny) is a struggling Adelaide restaurateur looking after her elderly mother and living with good-hearted boyfriend Jeff (Luke McKenzie). Five years ago, while catering on a film set in Australia, she had an intense affair with British movie star, Henry (Eddie Izzard).

Despite wild declarations of love, as the movie wrapped so did the relationship, crushing Ronnie’s heart. When Henry’s French girlfriend Sophie (Vanessa Guide) calls to say they will be in Adelaide on a promotional tour Jeff excitedly agrees to meet up and unwittingly creates the perfect opportunity for Henry to seduce Ronnie all over again.

 

 

THE FLIP SIDE taps into the intricacies of relationships, ambition and love when mixed with a bloody good shiraz.

The Flip Side stars EMILY TAHENY, EDDIE IZZARD, LUKE MCKENZIE, VANESSA GUIDE and opens in Australian cinemas AUGUST 30, 2018!

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