John (the band's frontman) .... Hugo Weaving
Susie Porter ... Cindy
Susan Prior ... Lynn
Marton Csokas ... Phil
Steve Rodgers ... Moon
Jeremy Sims ... Sam
Ewen Leslie ... Lee
John (Hugo Weaving) was once the frontman in one of the world’s biggest bans, Riflemind.
Now
John and his wife Lynn are safe from the world in their walled country
house. Money and anonymity, however, won’t protect them from themselves
or their past.
Fame and its attendant luxuries are addictive.
Addictions almost ruined both their lives. Well away from that life
they are now safe. Unhappy, silent, fragile, but safe.
Until the
pressure of a comeback tour bears down upon John. And the band simply
can not work without him. Crunch time. A weekend of music-making is
planned at John and Lynn’s estate. As soon as the band turns up – plus
their associated spouses, lovers and hangers-on – it’s a rock’n’roll
circus.
Riflemind captures, with delicacy, precision and a
beguiling black humour, a series of relationships languishing in the
backwaters of co-dependent love, greed and need. Despite, or because
of, their apparent affluence, social privilege, preposterous egos,
septic past and rock-god lifestyle, each of them struggles to find
redemption.
Over this weekend they will open old wounds, lose their way, play great music and, perhaps, stumble into a more certain future.
