The Swearing Jar

The Swearing Jar is a touching & intimate love story that draws you into the characters' lives so that you feel their pleasure & pain right along side them. A clever, non-linear plot that is even better when seen for the second time around due to nuances in the filming that support the narrative twist. (...That's all I can say about that!) The music plays a central role in the story telling. The songs are raw, hauntingly beautiful & sung by these two incredibly talented actors. A great film that leaves you pondering it long after the film is over. My advice, don't forget to bring your tissues!

This actually develops into a touching and complex story. But it takes a while to clarify the lines, so that if feels like nothing is quite happening for a little too long (despite some very original pieces right at the start). I'm not sure how much the unresolved confusion is meant to put the viewer off the track and how much is failure to think through the exposition, but I almost bowed out early a number of times. The story as it shapes up touches on some important themes of grief and recovery, but then it becomes a little predictable as well. It's also true that the moment Katherine Turner comes in she is so much stronger a presence than anyone else that it puts the otherwise engaging indie actors at a disadvantage. There is some good music, well-placed, but it only comes in and out. It never quite defines the tone.

Went in expecting a generic movie and came away being blown away. The acting and cinematography is above the majority of movies out there and the script makes it very believable.

I've never lived through a situation like the one that is portrayed in the movie, but if you have I can just imagine how hard hitting this film is.

It's not happy, sad or funny, it's just about life. I highly recommend it.

Went in expecting a generic movie and came away being blown away. The acting and cinematography is above the majority of movies out there and the script makes it very believable.

I've never lived through a situation like the one that is portrayed in the movie, but if you have I can just imagine how hard hitting this film is.

It's not happy, sad or funny, it's just about life. I highly recommend it.

This was , a film about love and relationship, swearing and promising, secrets and decieft, loss and pain, periodplanning and having a baby, a film about life and death, hormonal imbalance and deadly disease, and not to forget the importance of having a family, however bad it is.

A small casted but ever so filled with beautifulness, faces that i wont easy forget, especially ms.clemmens, cause she really reminded me about someone that i used to know.

Its a film about how priceless life is when youre in the turmoil of living it, and testifyes how shortlived life is. So grab your dear ones by the hand and live out your desires, because therell be a day when it all ends, very abrubt and senseless...

a well interpreted script from a novel that isnt to well known internationally, nevertheless they cant rip away the fact that this is a production that contains near perfect harmony, the cast is merely perfect for the caracters, and the musical score and vocal talents of ms. Clemmens is just unbelievable...

i might sound like a baptized grumpy old man that usually hates romcoms, but when it comes with twists and turns that are so earthshakingly shocking as in this feature movie there are no other way round than ...SEE THIS... i will for sure bring my wife in for a 2nd look, have allready bougt a kolli of kleenex, cause, yeah , its that kind of movie. Simply perfect and dug deep in m,y sole.

The Swearing Jar is a new musical romantic drama directed by Lindsay MacKay. After Wet Bum, this is only the second film she has directed.

Carey (Adelaide Clemens) is a young musician and is in a relationship with Simon (Patrick J. Adams). Their relationship isn't perfect, because sometimes they love each other very much, other times they also hate each other incredibly. Yet they are expecting a child together.

When they can't see each other for a while, Carey bumps into another man with whom she also seems to have good chemistry. This leaves Carey with a difficult choice.

The story of this film was written by Kate Hewlett, who further based it on her own play. Together with the director, she ensures that the film remains faithful to this play. The story only remains on a predictable side and for a romantic drama the film offers little else.

What the film manages to carry is more the beautiful singing work of the cast members, who have a good chemistry with each other, but otherwise it remains a standard romantic drama. For example, after the singing and their good mutual chemistry, the cast members also seem a bit standard when the romance and songs retreat a bit.