The Rage in Placid Lake is a 2003 Australian film starring Ben Lee and Rose Byrne. It features Placid Lake , a seventeen-year-old boy who has led a suburban hippie life with his neurotic, free loving parents. The film documents his journey of self-discovery as he rejects his hippie roots and embraces the mundane by working for an insurance agency, much to his parents' horror. Precocious, bohemian teenager Placid Lake finishes high school, but after having an existential crisis devises a plan to totally reinvent himself as a functioning member of society. With a few weeks spent reading a... library of self-help manuals, Lake gets a haircut, bespoke suit, and gets a white collar job working for an insurance agency. Lake has a smart friend Gemma who tries to talk him out of his newly found economic rationalism. The Rage in Placid Lake grossed $482,798 at the box office in Australia,.
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| Release date: | 2003 |
| Directed by: | Tony McNamara |
| Runtime: | 89 Minutes |
| Editor: | Lee Smith |
| Screenplay by: | Tony McNamara |
| Genre: | Comedy |