There is a 2016 documentary about Hotel Coolgardie, an out of the way Australian spot where foreign backpackers can work for a time to earn money, but also where two Finnish backpackers faced inhumane treatment while working as bartenders.
This movie, "The Royal Hotel" is a fictional story that was inspired by Hotel Coolgardie. It starts in Sydney, where Canadian friends, Julia Garner as Hanna and Jessica Henwick as Liv, find themselves without funds. There in fact is a real Work and Travel program in Australia for travelers between the ages of 18 and 30 who want to earn and travel. So the two friends take advantage of that.
They get a bus ticket to a remote spot, they end up at the fictional Royal Hotel which has rooms where they stay, but is primarily a pub. The owner is played excellently by "Matrix" veteran, Hugo Weaving.
Some things happen but the movie is really about the unpleasantness that female bar workers often must contend with. As the filmmakers explain, it doesn't have to be in the Australian outback, it could be in a Manhattan bar, as rowdy men get boozed up and threaten to cross the line in behavior.
While I don't rate this movie very highly I found it interesting and the main actors are all very good. At home on DVD from my public library, my wife read the description and skipped.
This movie, "The Royal Hotel" is a fictional story that was inspired by Hotel Coolgardie. It starts in Sydney, where Canadian friends, Julia Garner as Hanna and Jessica Henwick as Liv, find themselves without funds. There in fact is a real Work and Travel program in Australia for travelers between the ages of 18 and 30 who want to earn and travel. So the two friends take advantage of that.
They get a bus ticket to a remote spot, they end up at the fictional Royal Hotel which has rooms where they stay, but is primarily a pub. The owner is played excellently by "Matrix" veteran, Hugo Weaving.
Some things happen but the movie is really about the unpleasantness that female bar workers often must contend with. As the filmmakers explain, it doesn't have to be in the Australian outback, it could be in a Manhattan bar, as rowdy men get boozed up and threaten to cross the line in behavior.
While I don't rate this movie very highly I found it interesting and the main actors are all very good. At home on DVD from my public library, my wife read the description and skipped.