Blessed is a 2009 drama film. It was released in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 on 10 September 2009. It stars Miranda Otto

Miranda Otto

Miranda Otto is an Australian actress. The daughter of actors Lindsay and Barry Otto and the sister of actress Gracie Otto, she began acting at age eighteen, and has performed in a variety of independent and major studio films....

 and Frances O'Connor

Frances O'Connor

-Background:O'Connor was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England to a pianist mother and nuclear physicist father. When O'Connor was two, her family moved back to Perth, Western Australia. O'Connor was raised a Roman Catholic and attended the Mercedes College in Perth...

. It is a film adaptation of the play Who's Afraid of the Working Class?.

It is directed by Ana Kokkinos

Ana Kokkinos

Ana Kokkinos is an Australian film director. Kokkinos was born in Melbourne and prior to her career in film, she worked as an industrial lawyer...

 and written by Andrew Bovell

Andrew Bovell

Andrew Bovell is an Australian writer for theatre, film and television.-Life:Bovell was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and until recently lived in Adelaide, South Australia before moving to New York. He has recently now moved back to the Adelaide Hills, South Australia...

, Patricia Cornelius

Patricia Cornelius

Patricia Cornelius is an Australian playwright and co-founder of Melbourne Workers Theatre.-Plays:Cornelius has written more than 20 plays, which include Slut , The Call , Good, Do Not Go Gentle… , Boy Overboard , Love Patricia Cornelius is an Australian playwright and co-founder of Melbourne...

, Melissa Reeves

Melissa Reeves

Melissa Reeves is a long-time American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Jennifer Horton, a role she originated in 1985 on the long-running NBC series Days of our Lives -Personal life:She was born in Eatontown, New Jersey.Since March 1990, Reeves has been married to soap opera actor...

 and Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas

-Biography:He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Blackburn High School and the University of Melbourne where he completed an Arts Degree in 1987. www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 2007-07-22. He edited the student newspaper Farrago in 1988....

. The film is 113 minutes in length and was filmed in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Plot

The film is centered upon the interweaving lives and misadventures of seven lost youths who wander the Melbourne streets at night. Their mothers await their return home.

Cast

• Frances O'Connor
  Frances O'Connor
  -Background:O'Connor was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England to a pianist mother and nuclear physicist father. When O'Connor was two, her family moved back to Perth, Western Australia. O'Connor was raised a Roman Catholic and attended the Mercedes College in Perth...
  
   - Rhonda
• Miranda Otto
  Miranda Otto
  Miranda Otto is an Australian actress. The daughter of actors Lindsay and Barry Otto and the sister of actress Gracie Otto, she began acting at age eighteen, and has performed in a variety of independent and major studio films....
  
   - Bianca
• Deborra-Lee Furness
  Deborra-Lee Furness
  -Biography:Furness attended Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne where she graduated in 1973. She subsequently graduated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York in 1981....
  
   - Tanya
• Victoria Haralabidou
  Victoria Haralabidou
  Victoria Haralabidou , is a Greek actress. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia; her father was a Pontic Greek from Trabzon, while her mother was born in Tashkent to Greek refugees...
  
   - Gina
• Monica Maughan
  Monica Maughan
  Monica Maughan was an Australian actor with notable and well-known roles in film, theatre, radio and television.-Early life and education:...
  
   - Laurel Parker
• Wayne Blair - James Parker
• William McInnes
  William McInnes
  William McInnes is an Australian film and television actor and writer.-Television:After a recurring role on A Country Practice in 1990, McInnes appeared in series such as Bligh, Ocean Girl, and Snowy before making his name as Senior Constable Nick Schultz on Blue Heelers in 1994...
  
   - Peter
• Tasma Walton
  Tasma Walton
  Tasma Walton is an Australian television and film actress.-Acting career:Walton joined local radio station 6GE and trained as a production assistant and copy writer in her home town...
  
   - Gail
• Sophie Lowe
  Sophie Lowe
  Sophie Lowe is an actress who was born in England and migrated to Australia.-Life and career:Lowe was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England and moved to Australia with her family in 2000. In her early teens she signed to Chadwick Models but quit modelling in favor of dancing. Lowe attended the...
  
   - Katrina
• Anastasia Baboussouras - Trisha
• Harrison Gilbertson
  Harrison Gilbertson
  -Career:Gilbertson began acting at the age of six when he played the character of Sorrow in a local production of Madama Butterfly. He made his screen debut in 2002 playing the role of Greggy in Australian Rules....
  
   - Daniel
• Eamon Farren - Roo
• Eva Lazzaro
  Eva Lazzaro
  Eva Lazzaro in Melbourne, is an Australian actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Caylin-Calandria in the 2006 film Jindabyne and Stacey in the critically acclaimed 2009 film Blessed. She has also had minor parts in the television series Blue Heelers, Underbelly and Nightmares and...
  
   - Stacey
• Reef Ireland - Orton