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Powell's last theatrical feature, and Mirren's first starring role. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Norman Lindsay, whose life also inspired another movie about artists and sexy models, ''Film/{{Sirens|1994}}''.
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Powell's last theatrical feature, and Mirren's first starring role. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Norman Lindsay, whose life also inspired another movie about artists and sexy models, ''Film/{{Sirens|1994}}''.
''Film/{{Sirens|1994}}''. This film is no relation to 1932 film ''Film/TheAgeOfConsent'', except for the JailbaitTaboo being a plot point in both.
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Powell's last theatrical feature, and Mirren's first starring role. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Norman Lindsay, whose life also inspired another movie about artists and sexy models, ''Film/{{Sirens}}''.
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Powell's last theatrical feature, and Mirren's first starring role. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Norman Lindsay, whose life also inspired another movie about artists and sexy models, ''Film/{{Sirens}}''.
''Film/{{Sirens|1994}}''.
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* BathKick: Not in a bath, but the same effect. The movie ends with Bradley and Cora frolicking in the ocean. They plunge into the water, Cora kicks a leg up in BathKick style, freeze frame, movie ends.
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Bradley Morahan (Creator/JamesMason) is a successful artist. His sculptures and paintings are selling quite nicely but Bradley feels he has lost his creative spark. In an effort to find inspiration again, he goes back home to UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, renting out a dilapidated cabin by the beach on a remote island.
He finds inspiration in the person of Cora, a shockingly gorgeous teenaged girl played by [[DawsonCasting 22-year-old]] Creator/HelenMirren. Cora, an orphan in the care of an awful monstrous alcoholic grandma, longs to escape the island and move to Brisbane where she can become a hairdresser. Bradley and Cora start to form a bond as he paints her, but "Ma Ryan" (Neva Carr Glynn), her horror of a grandmother, threatens to ruin everything.
He finds inspiration in the person of Cora, a shockingly gorgeous teenaged girl played by [[DawsonCasting 22-year-old]] Creator/HelenMirren. Cora, an orphan in the care of an awful monstrous alcoholic grandma, longs to escape the island and move to Brisbane where she can become a hairdresser. Bradley and Cora start to form a bond as he paints her, but "Ma Ryan" (Neva Carr Glynn), her horror of a grandmother, threatens to ruin everything.
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Bradley Morahan (Creator/JamesMason) is a successful artist. His an artist whose sculptures and paintings are selling quite nicely in New York, but Bradley who feels he has lost his creative spark. In an effort to find inspiration again, he goes back home to UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, renting out a dilapidated cabin by the beach on a remote island.
He finds inspiration in the person of Cora, a shockingly gorgeousteenaged teenage girl played by [[DawsonCasting 22-year-old]] Creator/HelenMirren. Cora, an orphan in the care of an awful monstrous alcoholic grandma, longs to escape the island and move to Brisbane where she can become a hairdresser. Bradley and Cora start to form a bond as he paints her, but "Ma Ryan" (Neva Carr Glynn), her horror of a grandmother, threatens to ruin everything.
He finds inspiration in the person of Cora, a shockingly gorgeous
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''Age of Consent'' is a 1969 film directed by Creator/MichaelPowell.
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''Age of Consent'' is a 1969 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Creator/MichaelPowell.
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He finds inspiration in the person of Cora, a shockingly gorgeous teenaged girl played by [[DawsonCasting 22-year-old]] Creator/HelenMirren. Cora, an orphan in the care of an awful monstrous alcoholic grandma, longs to escape the island and move to Brisbane where she can become a hairdresser. Bradley and Cora start to form a bond as he paints her, but "Ma Ryan", her horror of a grandmother, threatens to ruin everything.
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He finds inspiration in the person of Cora, a shockingly gorgeous teenaged girl played by [[DawsonCasting 22-year-old]] Creator/HelenMirren. Cora, an orphan in the care of an awful monstrous alcoholic grandma, longs to escape the island and move to Brisbane where she can become a hairdresser. Bradley and Cora start to form a bond as he paints her, but "Ma Ryan", Ryan" (Neva Carr Glynn), her horror of a grandmother, threatens to ruin everything.
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* JailBait: Ma Ryan screeches that Cora is underage and that she will sic the police on Bradley. The potential creepiness of this onscreen is somewhat lessened by the fact that curvaceous Helen Mirren is not at all convincing as a teenaged girl.
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* JailBait: JailbaitTaboo: Ma Ryan screeches that Cora is underage and that she will sic the police on Bradley. The potential creepiness of this onscreen is somewhat lessened by the fact that curvaceous Helen Mirren is not at all convincing as a teenaged girl.
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* AdaptationalWealth: Bradley is significantly more solvent in the film than he was in the novel. In the book he was struggling to make ends meet. In the film his art is selling well, he's just not having fun making it anymore.
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* BlackComedyRape: Ned, who's looking for someone to sponge off of, starts courting Miss Marley, a lonely middle-aged lady. He's unctuously praising her cooking at dinner when she decides to stop wasting time, throws him off to the couch onto the floor, and jumps on top of him as he cries out in protest. The movie then cuts to a disheveled Ned returning to Bradley's cabin and saying "Brad, I've been raped." It's played for laughs.
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* BlackComedyRape: Ned, Nat, who's looking for someone to sponge off of, starts courting Miss Marley, a lonely middle-aged lady. He's unctuously praising her cooking at dinner when she decides to stop wasting time, throws him off to the couch onto the floor, and jumps on top of him as he cries out in protest. The movie then cuts to a disheveled Ned returning to Bradley's cabin and saying "Brad, I've been raped." It's played for laughs.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Miss Marley {{Black Comedy Rape}}s Bradley's annoying acquaintance Nat after apparently losing patience with him towards the end of their dinner date. A disheveled Ned arrives at Bradley's cabin the next morning and complains, "I've been raped". Cora is later [[AttemptedRape sexually assaulted]] by the ferryman, which is ''not'' played for laughs--although her [[GroinAttack kneeing him in the groin]], shoving him overboard in mid-ocean, and then forcing him to cling to a tow rope for the rest of the trip to the island is.
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* TheJailBaitWait: Averted within the movie, as while Cora and Bradley are obviously developing feelings for each other, there's no sense that Bradley is hoping to make a move or that he is waiting for some deadline to pass to make a move. However this is made explicit in the ''very'' creepy closing theme song, in which the singer sings that he and Cora can be together now that she has passed "the age of consent."
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* DramaticIrony: The local cop returns to Bradley the stolen $300 he retrieved from Ned. The cop says "I may only be a country copper, but I don't miss much. No one puts anything over on me." This is right after Cora manipulated the scene to make it look like Ma fell off the cliff in a drunken stupor, when it really happened while she was fighting with Cora.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: InUniverse. Bradley is doing pretty well for himself in New York but chafes with discontent, not being happy with selling workmanlike art to rich people. He leaves for Australia to find his muse.
* VerbalIrony: The local cop returns to Bradley the stolen $300 he retrieved from Ned. The cop says "I may only be a country copper, but I don't miss much. No one puts anything over on me." This is right after Cora manipulated the scene to make it look like Ma fell off the cliff in a drunken stupor, when it really happened while she was fighting with Cora.
* VerbalIrony: The local cop returns to Bradley the stolen $300 he retrieved from Ned. The cop says "I may only be a country copper, but I don't miss much. No one puts anything over on me." This is right after Cora manipulated the scene to make it look like Ma fell off the cliff in a drunken stupor, when it really happened while she was fighting with Cora.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: InUniverse. Bradley is doing pretty well for himself in New York but chafes with discontent, not being happy with selling workmanlike art to rich people. He leaves for Australia to find his muse.
* VerbalIrony: The local cop returns to Bradley the stolen $300 he retrieved from Ned. The cop says "I may only be a country copper, but I don't miss much. No one puts anything over on me." This is right after Cora manipulated the scene to make it look like Ma fell off the cliff in a drunken stupor, when it really happened while she was fighting with Cora.muse.
* VerbalIrony: The local cop returns to Bradley the stolen $300 he retrieved from Ned. The cop says "I may only be a country copper, but I don't miss much. No one puts anything over on me." This is right after Cora manipulated the scene to make it look like Ma fell off the cliff in a drunken stupor, when it really happened while she was fighting with Cora.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: InUniverse. Bradley is doing pretty well for himself in New York but chafes with discontent, not being happy with selling workmanlike art to rich people. He leaves for Australia to find his muse.
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* EroticFilm: An artist is enchanted by his sexy, voluptuous young model.
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* AbusiveParents: Abusive grandparent, in the form of Ma Ryan. When she catches a naked Cora in the shack trying on lipstick, she whacks her on the back with her cane.
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* BlackComedyRape: Ned, who's looking for someone to sponge off of, starts courting Mrs. Marley, a lonely middle-aged widow. He's unctuously praising her cooking at dinner when she decides to stop wasting time, throws him off to the couch onto the floor, and jumps on top of him as he cries out in protest. The movie then cuts to a disheveled Ned returning to Bradley's cabin and saying "Brad, I've been raped." It's played for laughs.
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* BlackComedyRape: Ned, who's looking for someone to sponge off of, starts courting Mrs. Miss Marley, a lonely middle-aged widow.lady. He's unctuously praising her cooking at dinner when she decides to stop wasting time, throws him off to the couch onto the floor, and jumps on top of him as he cries out in protest. The movie then cuts to a disheveled Ned returning to Bradley's cabin and saying "Brad, I've been raped." It's played for laughs.
* LettingHerHairDown: One scene has Cora, who has been gaining confidence after posing for Bradley, letting her down from a bun in the shack. It's not the first time she's been scene with her hair down, but in this case it's symbolic, as in this instance she takes her dress off as well, looks at her naked body in the mirror, and starts putting on lipstick.
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* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: Ned is embarrassed when Mrs. Marley comes by with her dog while he's swimming naked in the water.
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* {{Skinnydipping}}: One of the more famous scenes in the movie features Cora swimming around the beach in the nude, looking for lobsters and oysters and such, while Bradley draws her.
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* GroinAttack: The guy ferrying people on and off the island in a motorboat tries to rape Cora. She knees him in the groin and pushes him off the boat.
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''Age of Consent'' is a 1969 film directed by Creator/MichaelPowell.
Bradley Morahan (Creator/JamesMason) is a successful artist. His sculptures and paintings are selling quite nicely but Bradley feels he has lost his creative spark. In an effort to find inspiration again, he goes back home to UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, renting out a dilapidated cabin by the beach on a remote island.
He finds inspiration in the person of Cora, a shockingly gorgeous teenaged girl played by [[DawsonCasting 22-year-old]] Creator/HelenMirren. Cora, an orphan in the care of an awful monstrous alcoholic grandma, longs to escape the island and move to Brisbane where she can become a hairdresser. Bradley and Cora start to form a bond as he paints her, but "Ma Ryan", her horror of a grandmother, threatens to ruin everything.
Michael Powell's last theatrical feature. First starring role for Helen Mirren. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Norman Lindsay, whose life also inspired another movie about artists and sexy models, ''Film/{{Sirens}}''.
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* TheAlcoholic: Awful, awful Ma Ryan. There's a pile of empty gin bottles outside her shack. She's constantly swigging from a bottle. Cora notes that the last time Ma went to town she was arrested for public intoxication.
* BaitAndSwitch: Ned the comic relief character is talking about how he had sex with the wife of his banker. The husband comes home and catches them. Ned says "Do you know what he did, the jealous bastard? He cut it off." ''({{Beat}})'' "My overdraft." (The line of credit at his bank, that is.)
* BlackComedyRape: Ned, who's looking for someone to sponge off of, starts courting Mrs. Marley, a lonely middle-aged widow. He's unctuously praising her cooking at dinner when she decides to stop wasting time, throws him off to the couch onto the floor, and jumps on top of him as he cries out in protest. The movie then cuts to a disheveled Ned returning to Bradley's cabin and saying "Brad, I've been raped." It's played for laughs.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Ma Ryan steals the money that Cora's been squirreling away for passage off the island and on to Brisbane. Cora chases her down and confronts her. They tussle over the little bag of cash, a struggle that ends with Ma slipping and falling off a cliff to her death.
* FanDisservice: Scrawny, ugly old Ned shucking off all his clothes to go swimming on the beach.
* GilliganCut: Bradley describes his old friend Ned as a "nice, shy, quiet sort of joker." This is followed by Ned bellowing "Brad you old bastard!" at the top of his lungs as he plows through a crowd to meet Brad.
* JailBait: Ma Ryan screeches that Cora is underage and that she will sic the police on Bradley. The potential creepiness of this onscreen is somewhat lessened by the fact that curvaceous Helen Mirren is not at all convincing as a teenaged girl.
* TheJailBaitWait: Averted within the movie, as while Cora and Bradley are obviously developing feelings for each other, there's no sense that Bradley is hoping to make a move or that he is waiting for some deadline to pass to make a move. However this is made explicit in the ''very'' creepy closing theme song, in which the singer sings that he and Cora can be together now that she has passed "the age of consent."
* TheKenBurnsEffect: Used in the opening credits as the camera pans over a painting by Bradley Morahan of a scene on the beach with himself and Cora.
* MayDecemberRomance: Cora is a teenager. It's debatable how old Bradley is supposed to be (in RealLife James Mason was 60), but he's certainly well into middle age.
* MsFanservice: Skinnydipping, SexySoakedShirt, ToplessnessFromTheBack, nude modeling--the movie really gets maximum mileage out of Cora.
* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: Ned is embarrassed when Mrs. Marley comes by with her dog while he's swimming naked in the water.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: For most of the movie Mason sounds more like he's NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent. It's only in a couple of scenes, like the one in the general store where he's making a phone call, that he manages to affect a vaguely Australian-sounding voice.
* SceneryPorn: Dunk Island, Australia is shown off to great effect.
* SexySoakedShirt: In both Cora's first and last scenes she is wearing a thin cotton shift that gets soaked to her skin, leaving nothing to the imagination.
* TrueArtIsAngsty: Bradley is doing pretty well for himself in New York but chafes with discontent, not being happy with selling workmanlike art to rich people. He leaves for Australia to find his muse.
* VerbalIrony: The local cop returns to Bradley the stolen $300 he retrieved from Ned. The cop says "I may only be a country copper, but I don't miss much. No one puts anything over on me." This is right after Cora manipulated the scene to make it look like Ma fell off the cliff in a drunken stupor, when it really happened while she was fighting with Cora.
Bradley Morahan (Creator/JamesMason) is a successful artist. His sculptures and paintings are selling quite nicely but Bradley feels he has lost his creative spark. In an effort to find inspiration again, he goes back home to UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, renting out a dilapidated cabin by the beach on a remote island.
He finds inspiration in the person of Cora, a shockingly gorgeous teenaged girl played by [[DawsonCasting 22-year-old]] Creator/HelenMirren. Cora, an orphan in the care of an awful monstrous alcoholic grandma, longs to escape the island and move to Brisbane where she can become a hairdresser. Bradley and Cora start to form a bond as he paints her, but "Ma Ryan", her horror of a grandmother, threatens to ruin everything.
Michael Powell's last theatrical feature. First starring role for Helen Mirren. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Norman Lindsay, whose life also inspired another movie about artists and sexy models, ''Film/{{Sirens}}''.
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!!Tropes:
* TheAlcoholic: Awful, awful Ma Ryan. There's a pile of empty gin bottles outside her shack. She's constantly swigging from a bottle. Cora notes that the last time Ma went to town she was arrested for public intoxication.
* BaitAndSwitch: Ned the comic relief character is talking about how he had sex with the wife of his banker. The husband comes home and catches them. Ned says "Do you know what he did, the jealous bastard? He cut it off." ''({{Beat}})'' "My overdraft." (The line of credit at his bank, that is.)
* BlackComedyRape: Ned, who's looking for someone to sponge off of, starts courting Mrs. Marley, a lonely middle-aged widow. He's unctuously praising her cooking at dinner when she decides to stop wasting time, throws him off to the couch onto the floor, and jumps on top of him as he cries out in protest. The movie then cuts to a disheveled Ned returning to Bradley's cabin and saying "Brad, I've been raped." It's played for laughs.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Ma Ryan steals the money that Cora's been squirreling away for passage off the island and on to Brisbane. Cora chases her down and confronts her. They tussle over the little bag of cash, a struggle that ends with Ma slipping and falling off a cliff to her death.
* FanDisservice: Scrawny, ugly old Ned shucking off all his clothes to go swimming on the beach.
* GilliganCut: Bradley describes his old friend Ned as a "nice, shy, quiet sort of joker." This is followed by Ned bellowing "Brad you old bastard!" at the top of his lungs as he plows through a crowd to meet Brad.
* JailBait: Ma Ryan screeches that Cora is underage and that she will sic the police on Bradley. The potential creepiness of this onscreen is somewhat lessened by the fact that curvaceous Helen Mirren is not at all convincing as a teenaged girl.
* TheJailBaitWait: Averted within the movie, as while Cora and Bradley are obviously developing feelings for each other, there's no sense that Bradley is hoping to make a move or that he is waiting for some deadline to pass to make a move. However this is made explicit in the ''very'' creepy closing theme song, in which the singer sings that he and Cora can be together now that she has passed "the age of consent."
* TheKenBurnsEffect: Used in the opening credits as the camera pans over a painting by Bradley Morahan of a scene on the beach with himself and Cora.
* MayDecemberRomance: Cora is a teenager. It's debatable how old Bradley is supposed to be (in RealLife James Mason was 60), but he's certainly well into middle age.
* MsFanservice: Skinnydipping, SexySoakedShirt, ToplessnessFromTheBack, nude modeling--the movie really gets maximum mileage out of Cora.
* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: Ned is embarrassed when Mrs. Marley comes by with her dog while he's swimming naked in the water.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: For most of the movie Mason sounds more like he's NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent. It's only in a couple of scenes, like the one in the general store where he's making a phone call, that he manages to affect a vaguely Australian-sounding voice.
* SceneryPorn: Dunk Island, Australia is shown off to great effect.
* SexySoakedShirt: In both Cora's first and last scenes she is wearing a thin cotton shift that gets soaked to her skin, leaving nothing to the imagination.
* TrueArtIsAngsty: Bradley is doing pretty well for himself in New York but chafes with discontent, not being happy with selling workmanlike art to rich people. He leaves for Australia to find his muse.
* VerbalIrony: The local cop returns to Bradley the stolen $300 he retrieved from Ned. The cop says "I may only be a country copper, but I don't miss much. No one puts anything over on me." This is right after Cora manipulated the scene to make it look like Ma fell off the cliff in a drunken stupor, when it really happened while she was fighting with Cora.
