What is the movie the eye of the storm about?

Hoping to reconcile and secure their inheritances, a brother and sister visit their dying but defiant mother.The Eye of the Storm / Film synopsis

Where is the eye of the storm filmed?

Filmed in Melbourne, Sydney and Far North Queensland, and based on the novel by acclaimed author Patrick White, ‘The Eye of the Storm’ is about children finally understanding themselves, through the context of family.

What is Geoffrey Rush famous for?

Geoffrey Roy Rush AC (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor and narrator. He is among 24 people who have won the Triple Crown of Acting: an Academy Award for film, a Primetime Emmy Award for television, and a Tony Award for theatre.

What did Patrick White win the Nobel Prize for?

The Australian Patrick White has been awarded the 1973 Nobel Literature Prize “for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature”, as it says in the Swedish Academy’s citation.

What’s inside the eye of a hurricane?

The eye is a region of mostly calm weather at the center of tropical cyclones. The eye of a storm is a roughly circular area, typically 30–65 kilometers (19–40 miles) in diameter. It is surrounded by the eyewall, a ring of towering thunderstorms where the most severe weather and highest winds occur.

What nationality is Geoffrey Rush?

AustralianGeoffrey Rush / Nationality

Who is Geoffrey Rush married to?

Jane MenelausGeoffrey Rush / Spouse (m. 1988)

Why did Elizabeth Blackburn win the Nobel Prize?

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 jointly to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.

Who was the last Australian to win a Nobel Prize?

In 1973 Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. White’s work explores some of humankind’s great existential questions in a distinctly Australian environment.