
Essie Davis, Eliza Scanlen, Toby Wallace, Ben Mendelsohn in Babyteeth.
IFC Films
Psychiatrist Henry Finlay (Ben Mendelsohn) and his wife Anna (Essie Davis), once a music prodigy, enjoy their luxurious life in Sydney.
Things change when their daughter Milla (Eliza Scanlen), who’s 16, encounters first love with Moses (Toby Wallace), a hot-wired junkie.
Since Milla has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, the Finlays have to make allowances.
First-time feature director Shannon Murphy and screenwriter Rita Kalnejais, who adapted her own play, almost avoid familiarity of the terminal illness melodrama.