Aden Young Filmography

In the Company of Actors

Actors: Aden Young, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Robyn Nevin, Justine Clarke

Synopsis: It's rare that audiences have the opportunity to watch actors perfect their roles in the sacred space of the rehearsal room, but in this documentary detailing the Sydney Theater Company's production of Hedda Gabler at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, theater fans are afforded the Read More

Salvation

Crew: Editor

Actors: Bruce Myles, Natalia Novakova, Wendy Hughes, Alex Menglet, Barry Humphries

Synopsis: Acclaimed Australian filmmaker Paul Cox directs this intimate drama about the unlikely bond between a prostitute and a bible scholar. Natalia Novakova plays Irina, a Russian immigrant forced to sell herself out of necessity. Bruce Myles is Barry, a man married to a religious zealot who leaves him Read More

The Bet

Actors: Matt Newton, Aden Young

Human Touch

Actors: Jacqueline McKenzie, Aaron Blabey, Chris Haywood, Rebecca Firsth, Aden Young

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

Actors: Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin, Magda Szubanski, David Wenham

Synopsis: Crikey! Following a brief cameo in Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001), hyperactive, high-energy cable television star and native Australian naturalist Steve Irwin parlays his success as a confronter of all things scaly, fanged, and venomous into this feature-film adventure. Irwin and his wife Terri Irwin play Read More

The War Bride

Actors: Anna Friel, Brenda Fricker, Aden Young, Loren Dean, Julie Cox

Synopsis: Anna Friel and Aden Young star in this romantic drama set against the backdrop of World War II, and following a wide-eyed London girl who falls for a Canadian soldier. The year is 1943, and as war wages across Europe, vivacious young Lily becomes smitten with rugged Canadian Charlie. The couple Read More

Love and War

Synopsis: A deeply spiritual war bride attempts to adjust to the slower pace of rural life after relocating from lively London to her new husband's remote farm in Canada in a soulful tale of wartime relationships based on actual events and starring Anna Friel. Upon arrival at her new husband Charlie's Read More

Serenades

Actors: Aden Young, Billie Brown, David Gulpilil

Synopsis: Director Mojgan Khadem's exotic drama draws on research conducted by Christine Stevens to tell the tale of Jalil - the daughter of an Aboriginal Australian and an Afghan cameleer. As a young girl living in Australia, Jalil was raised as an Aborigine by her grandfather. Later, Jalil's childhood Read More

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

Actors: David Wenham, Kate Ceberano, Chris Haywood, Thom Hoffman, Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: Based on the true story of a priest who risked his life in order to help people no one else would touch (a wager he would eventually lose), Father Damien stars David Wenham as the titular Belgian saint. In 1872, Damien, a young Catholic priest serving as a missionary near Hawaii, volunteers to Read More

Cousin Bette

Actors: Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Bob Hoskins, Hugh Laurie, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Acclaimed theater director Des McAnuff made his feature-film directorial debut with this period comedy-drama adapted from Honore de Balzac's novel La Cousine Bette (1846) about a jealous and bitter spinster who attempts to destroy the romance between her niece and a Polish sculptor. In Paris of Read More

In the Shadows

Actors: Joely Richardson, Aden Young, Molly Parker, Kevin Phillip, Krisha Fairchild

Synopsis: Meg Richman made her feature directorial debut with this modernization of Henry James' Wings of the Dove, set in Seattle where musician Cynthia (Molly Parker) breaks up with drug-addict Buck (Aden Young). After Cynthia answers an ad for a live-in caretaker, she meets Eleanor Dunston (Joely Richardson Read More

River Street

Synopsis: Sleazy real estate wheeler-dealer Ben Egan (Aden Young) is brought up short when a deal catastrophically falls through. After he hits a policeman, Egan winds up doing several months of community service at a youth drop-in center. Before that, he had been all set up to marry the boss's daughter (Tammy MacIntosh Read More

Cosi

Actors: Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Aden Young

Synopsis: In this Australian comedy, adapted by Louis Nowra from his own play and updated from a '70s to a '90s setting, a Sydney slacker gets the chance to stage an opera, but his cast is assembled from the ranks of the mentally ill. After a long stretch sponging off his law-student girlfriend Lucy (Rachel Read More

Hotel de Love

Actors: Simon Bossell, Aden Young, Saffron Burrows, Pippa Grandison, Peter O'Brien, Ray Barrett

Synopsis: A man tries to win the hand of the love of his life -- which is an uphill battle, since she's about to get married -- in this romantic comedy from Australia. Seventeen-year-old Stephen (Simon Bossell) first sees Melissa (Saffron Burrows) across the room at a party, and from that moment on, he's Read More

Metal Skin

Actors: Aden Young, Tara Morice, Nadine Garner, Ben Mendelsohn, Chantal Contouri

Synopsis: The one-upmanship of middle-aged men, bragging to one another that "when I was a kid, I was so poor that..." will never happen to Joe, even though the stories he could tell would put them to shame. In this melodramatic youth story, Joe lives with his demented father in a shanty, and he has been Read More

Exile

Actors: Aden Young, Beth Champion, Claudia Karvan, David Field, Norman Kaye

Synopsis: This Australian drama, based on the novel Priest Island by E.L. Grant, tells the tale of a man exiled to a lonely island after he is caught stealing sheep. The story is set in an unnamed time in an unknown time. Peter had been stealing the sheep to pay the dowry for his beloved, Jean. He is Read More

Broken Highway

Actors: Dennis Miller, Aden Young, David Field, Bill Hunter, Claudia Karvan, Norman Kaye

Synopsis: In this moody black and white drama, very much in the mode of the American "western," but with its own film noir characteristics, a whole town is heaved out of its doldrums when a pair of mysterious strangers come visiting. In the beginning of the film, Angel (Aden Young) is traveling with his Read More

Love in Limbo

Actors: Martin Sacks, Aden Young, Russell Crowe

Synopsis: In Perth in 1957, teen-aged Ken seems like the nearest thing to an expert on sex that even his uncle (who was given the task of delivering a "birds-and-the-bees" speech to him) has seen. It goes without saying that he's never actually engaged in any sexual activity with a woman. His much vaunted Read More

Over the Hill

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Sigrid Thornton, Derek Fowlds, Bill Kerr, Steve Bisley

Synopsis: Somewhere in the Northeastern U.S., Alma (Olympia Dukakis) is a 60-year-old recent widow who has never been on her own since her early marriage to a domineering husband. Her son tries to immure her in a dowdy apartment in the basement of his house and showers her with perfunctory and thoughtless Read More

Sniper

Actors: Tom Berenger, Billy Zane, J.T. Walsh, Aden Young, Ken Radley

Synopsis: In this fast-paced military thriller, Tom Berenger is Thomas Beckett, a tough, grizzled, U.S. Marine Corps veteran sharpshooter who goes through target-spotter partners faster than bullets on his ultra-dangerous missions. The National Security Council secretly assigns Beckett to assassinate a Read More

Black Robe

Actors: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg, Tantoo Cardinal

Synopsis: Adapted by Brian Moore from his own novel, The Black Robe is a sprawling recreation of a turbelent period in Canadian history. In 1634, Jesuit missionary Father Laforgue (Lothair Bluteau) arrives in the New World, hoping to convert the Huron Indian tribe to Catholicism-and, incidentally, to Read More