WATCHING the first two-thirds of Keiran Darcy-Smith’s thriller, co-written by actress wife Felicity Price, had me disagreeing with that title. But I stuck it out as is my duty and the last part sort of made up.

David (Joel Edgerton) and pregnant Alice (Price) together with her sister Steph (Theresa Palmer) and Steph’s current bloke Jeremy (Anthony Starr) holiday together in Cambodia. Jeremy goes missing.

When the other three return to Sydney, Alice learns that David and Steph had a drunken beach bonk after a party, a one time thing but Alice goes right off her rocker about it, although not to the extent of taking the older kids home to her oldies.

The film’s other theme is Jeremy’s whereabouts. AFP, DFAT and a Customs sniffer dog enter the story. But the truth remains in Cambodia and only David knows it. Its revelation partly explains his poltroonish behaviour.

But I doubt whether, as written, he could have been any better a person had things been otherwise in a film in which time and place play hide and seek games to annoying effect.

At Greater Union