Again a movie success transition, from another David Williamson play, this one with colorful bite and characters like Sydney itself, Chris Haywood, a hoot, as a struggling scriptwriter parasite, who sadly happens to be the hot Kidman's boyfriend. The always fine Hargreaves, plays an award winning, and unappreciative scriptwriter, leaves the smog and noise of busy old Melbourne with his family, for the glitz, glamor and lushness of Sydney. There of course, he's bedazzled by Kidman's beauty, while also being used by shark, conning Haywood. Anyone connected with the movie industry, will appreciate Emerald City, because of it's gut aching truth,
in front and behind the camera, but mainly it'll be scriptwriters, who try to pitch passionate projects amidst, the wheeling and dealing of producers, so forth, some of it compromise, but hey, that's the industry. Robyn Nevin is terrific as Hargreaves wife. She's a really down to earth character, you'd want to know in real life. It's funny, in part, yeah, but never boring, as colorful as the emerald city itself.