Backbencher

I just recently pulled this off my shelf and watched it for the first time in about a year. This is a move about a woman in her early twenties that is faced with low self esteem and slightly over weight. To discover who she is, she takes off on a vacation that is paid for buy steeling from her parents in the thounds of Australian dollars. There she meets up with the high school a list crowd and trays to fit in. Here she discovers that she could that she can't fit in because they have the same low self esteem. Also they are cold and back stabbing. Toward the end of the trip she runs into another person from her high school. They start to hang out together. After the trip they move in together and start new jobs that are minium wage. They start a life of parting and sex.

Back at home things are not going great for Murial's family. Her father is being investigated for stealing funds from the government for the funds that Muriel stole. This puts a lot stress on her parents so much so that her dad starts to have an affair and her mother begins to shoplifting at a store like wal-mart. Things continue to get worse when Murials's friend gets cancer of the spinal cord and can't walk any more. While in her friend is in the hospital Muriel starts to got wedding shops and trying on wedding dress. She tells the clerks that she needs a photo of how she looks in them because her mother is sick. As this goes on Muriel sees an add in the local paper that is looking for wife for a South African Olympic swimmer so he can become an Australian citizen. Muriel agrees to the wedding.

The weeding takes place and it is one of tackiest things that I have ever seen. The is the beginning of the end of the movie. At the wedding every one ignores Murial's mother and this sends her over the edge. Her mother burns down the backyard and kills herself. At the funeral Muriel realizes all that she has lost and makes amends for the past. This is where she finds her self confince.

This movie is very deranged. It makes you wonder if the Ozzys have every heard of prozac. Well this was a fun movie that will keep you guessing on what strange thing will happen next.