DramaComedy

Bad Behaviour

Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan.

Release Date : 2023-11-02

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Bee-Hive ProductionsNew Zealand Film CommissionFulcrum Media FinanceImages & SoundProtagonist PicturesSandy Lane ProductionsAsk Me About My Films

Production Country : New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Lucy

Original Name : Jennifer Connelly

Gender : Female

Character Name : Dylan

Original Name : Alice Englert

Gender : Female

Character Name : Elon Bello

Original Name : Ben Whishaw

Gender : Male

Character Name : Petunia

Original Name : Ana Scotney

Gender : Female

Character Name : Beverly

Original Name : Dasha Nekrasova

Gender : Female

Character Name : Leonard Gow

Original Name : Karan Gill

Gender : Male

Character Name : Elmore

Original Name : Marlon Williams

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tom

Original Name : Alistair Sewell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dion

Original Name : Beulah Koale

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tuesday

Original Name : Kahu Wesling MacGregor

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cilla

Original Name : Gabe McDonnell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Abhay

Original Name : Mel Odedra

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sasha

Original Name : Keporah Torrance

Gender : Male

Character Name : Robin

Original Name : Xana Tang

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mark

Original Name : Thomas Sainsbury

Gender : Male

Character Name : Abhay's Assistant

Original Name : Vaishalee Bhana

Gender : Male

Character Name : Film Director

Original Name : Bruno Du Bois

Gender : Male

Character Name : 1st Assistant Director

Original Name : Molly Hallam

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lawrence

Original Name : Robbie Magasiva

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jay

Original Name : Edward Clendon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sheriff #1

Original Name : Perry Piercy

Gender : Female

Character Name : Sheriff #2

Original Name : James Cain

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jeneane

Original Name : Goretti Chadwick

Gender : Male

Character Name : Doctor

Original Name : Jane Campion

Gender : Female

Character Name : Karla

Original Name : Anji Kreft

Gender : Male

Character Name : Waitress

Original Name : Carmel McGlone

Gender : Female

Character Name : Deborah

Original Name : Lara Macgregor

Gender : Male

Character Name : Noelle

Original Name : Molly O'Shea

Gender : Male

Character Name : Flight Attendant (uncredited)

Original Name : Sarah Munn

Gender : Female

Reviews

Manuel São Bento

@msbreviews

2023-01-26

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/bad-behaviour-review-sundance-2023 "Bad Behaviour boasts an all-in, powerful performance from Jennifer Connelly, but it’s too messy, tonally unbalanced, and narratively all-over-the-place to connect with. It wastes too much time being nonsensical before the mother-daughter relationship gets interesting. Disappointing." Rating: D+

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-01-10

My first solo film of 2024. Just me in a cinema and after half an hour I was beginning to understand why! "Lucy" (Jennifer Connelly) is trying to have a phone conversation with her daughter "Dylan" (auteur Alice Englert) whilst en route to a remote Oregon retreat. She's thousands of miles away in New Zealand and we get the distinct impression that she's not especially interested. That's a feeling that's quite contagious as we all now endure her experience at the spiritual "Loveranch". A supposedly tech-free place run by "Elon" (Ben Whishaw) that encourages people to open their hearts, their souls and their brains to meaningless waffle about finding yourself. Now insofar as this is supposed to be a parody of this kind of rip-off facility, it sort of works - especially with the arrival of model and DJ "Beverly" (Dasha Nekrasova) to whom "Lucy" takes not just an instant dislike but also the leg of a chair! Meantime the daughter has an incident of her own on the whacky film set where she is stunt artist. That results in her losing her job and racing home to be by the side of her now incarcerated mother. If you weren't bored already, then the best is yet to come - a positively nauseating tale of family discord, a suicide attempt involving some pills and the shallow end of a swimming pool and, finally, some meaningful conversations amidst the forest with running water gently trickling a-foot! Can they salvage the relationship? Does it need savaging? Do we care? Perhaps this read better as a script, and there are times when I felt the wrath of "Lucy" emanating from the screen, but for the most part this is the stuff of a really poor stage play that reminded me again that Ben Whishaw is no great shakes at all on the big screen - indeed, I wonder if he was actually acting at all! As "Yoda" might have said - one fun scene does not a movie make.