Audrey (2024)

The title is deceiving. This pitch black comedy is not so much about Audrey Lipsick (Josephine Blazier) as it is about her family, though everyone on the family’s life seems to revolve around Audrey. We’ll start with her mother, Ronnie (Jackie Van Beek). Ronnie used to be an actress, but her career got sidelined when she became pregnant with Audrey and now she lives vicariously through Audrey’s pursuit of stardom. The spark in her now sexless marriage to Cormack (Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) is completely gone, and the two are just going through the motions now. All the while, their cerebral palsy-stricken younger daughter Norah (Hannah Diviney) feels overlooked, as her own interests, like fencing, always have to take a backseat to Audrey’s. Then there’s a terrible accident - Audrey falls off a roof and slips into a deep coma. Suddenly, it’s as if the rest of the family’s shackles have disappeared and they can finally be free. Ronnie pretends to be Audrey in order to take acting classes and reignite her career. Cormack enters the world of Christian-themed pornography and starts up an affair, and Norah sidles up to Audrey’s boyfriend Max (Fraser Anderson), who also seems happier with Audrey unconscious. You’ll want to be wide awake for the films sexiest moments though. There’s a steamy montage with Jackie in her undies as she and Jeremy break in a new sex toy, meanwhile Nudecomer Vivienne Abitia delivers her T’n’A for the first time as a porn actress getting nailed by a guy playing Herod in one of the aforementioned adult films. He really gets to know her in the biblical sense!