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The Royal Hotel

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Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called 'The Royal Hotel' in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
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A chilling immersion into a place and time fraught with constant danger, The Royal Hotel reunites Kitty Green and Julia Garner to electrifying effect.

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Stephen Romei The Australian It's no Wake in Fright, but that's hardly a criticism. Rated: 3/5 Nov 28, 2023 Full Review Jake Wilson The Age (Australia) The balance between realism and abstraction isn’t maintained quite until the end, which is effective in its way, but less than a fully convincing resolution to what has come before. Rated: 3/5 Nov 27, 2023 Full Review Hanna Flint London Evening Standard The Royal Hotel simmers with the heat of oppressive testosterone at a pub in the Australian Outback. That is, until it boils over with cathartic female rage. Rated: 4/5 Nov 6, 2023 Full Review Calum Cooper Flick Feast The discomforting nature of its delivery may divide certain audiences, but the observations it makes in regards to male behaviour is as powerful as it is maddening to those who recall similar experiences. Rated: 4/5 Jul 19, 2024 Full Review Connor Lightbody TAKE ONE Magazine with two narrative features under her belt, both as striking and as sharp as a shattered whisky bottle, Green is a filmmaker one should take notice of...a thriller where respect is more scarce than water in the drought-ridden town Rated: 4/5 Jul 4, 2024 Full Review James Croot Stuff.co.nz While cleverly giving the story a crowd-pleasing finale, Aussie director and co-writer Kitty Green’s take just never quite engenders the same sense of voyeurism – or nausea – that made the documentary Hotel Coolgardie such unforgettable viewing. Apr 28, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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cindy Love Julia Garner!!!!! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/18/23 Full Review Ice B This movie was hard to watch, and hard to stop watching. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/17/23 Full Review Ron S It passed time. Well made film but what was the point. Character development minimalistic. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/15/23 Full Review Jaheesh Garner was pretty good. The movie was edgy and was exciting. The plot falls apart though if the hotel just hires one good bouncer with a stick. Extremely unrealistic for the sake of making a somewhat tripe point. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 10/15/23 Full Review Penny E Acting was superb plot was great suspenseful. Overall fantastic movie. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/15/23 Full Review Kenny Unequivocally one of the worst 15 movies Ive ever seen. Julia Garner is a fabulous actress, so how she got wrapped up in this horrible production I dont know. There is no character development, there is no discernible plot and it is just an overall horrible film. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called 'The Royal Hotel' in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
Director
Kitty Green
Producer
Iain Canning, Kath Shelper, Emile Sherman, Liz Watts
Screenwriter
Kitty Green, Oscar Redding, Kitty Green, Oscar Redding
Distributor
NEON
Production Co
See-Saw Films, Fulcrum Media Finance, Scarlett Pictures
Rating
R (Sexual Content/Nudity|Language Throughout)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 6, 2023, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA)
$780.3K
Runtime
1h 31m
Aspect Ratio
Digital 2.39:1
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