Occasional Coarse Language

"Occasional Coarse Language" is the type of film people go to see because the movie they wanted to see wasn't showing or was sold out. With mixed reports from the reviewers, I decided to check it out on a whim. What confronted me was a plotless meandering through the so-called life of Min Rogers and her friends due to the loss of boyfriend, job and flat. It's heavy on the sex and there is the occasional coarse language but its originality will charm and it is absolutely hilarious. Unforgettable scenes, unlikely situations... I won't spoil it.

OCL is one of those small independant films that I am constantly recommending to friends. Min (Sara Browne) has just been fired from her job at a Deli and has just found out her boyfriend is having an affair with her room-mate. So she finds herself without a boyfriend, without a place to live and no job. Her best friend Jaz (Astrid Grant) finds her a place to stay and a new job..."Now only if we can find you some regular sex you can walk down the street without a bag over your head". Min has also got a sick father to deal with and she is always on the phone to her mum about him..."You found his thermometer where ??? Bulls**t!!!". OCL is a film that deserves repeat viewings and the cast is excellent, especially Sara Browne, Nicholas Bishop (as Min's sexually adventrous new room-mate) and Lisa Denmeade (as Claire, her foul-mouthed friend). Highly recommended.

This movie encapsulates perfectly the life of one daggy girl in sydney during the nineties. i loved it because she is such a loser! and the clothes, the way they speak, everything is so genuine and realistic. i loved mim's self justifications and i loved her friends. some of the acting isnt too brilliant and its not a really deep and meaningful piece of cinema but its a terribly funny movie that i reccomend to all aussie girls

"Occasional Coarse Language" is a pretty entertaining, though not particularly memorable, late-'90s flick from Australia.

For some reason I always remembered seeing the ads for this movie on TV back in 1998. The movie must have had a pretty forceful advertising campaign, but it apparently didn't work, because the movie is now completely forgotten.

The movie feels genuine and spontaneous and is mostly plotless. I wonder if much of the dialogue was adlibbed: it's natural enough that it may not have been scripted. It's also the kind of movie where the low budget is a help to it, not a hindrance. It just feels real.

It also has a soundtrack with songs that will be instantly recognisable for any Australian that was young in the '90s, with tracks by You Am I, Spiderbait, Jebediah. One of my favourite songs from that era of Australian music also features prominently on the soundtrack: "Even When I'm Sleeping" by Leonardo's Bride.

A movie like this wouldn't work at all without an engaging star performance and its lead actress provides that in spades. It sucks she was only in one other production before vanishing completely: one episode of the cult, early '00s comedy "Life Support".

I hope her scarce credits were not due to a lack of opportunity, because based off of her performance in this movie, she deserved plenty of job offers.

It's nice to think that instead she just changed her mind about becoming an actress.

What an ordinary film! What starts off as an amusing and potentially interesting plotline fails to evolve at all, and the movie just trails off into nothingness. The problem is exacerbated by some wooden acting performances (particularly Astrid Grant - a shoe-in for the Best Supporting Tree-like Performance at next year's AFIs), and some less-than-snappy dialogue.

This was an interesting idea for a film, and there is a challenge to film-makers in viewing this, because one gets the feeling that a good film of this type is still waiting to be made.