11. Vicki-Ann and Dimity hold many of their conversations at a favorite cement picnic table overlooking railroad tracks. 12. Dimity Reed was born in 1942 in Parks, New South Wales, as the middle child of two siblings.13. Dimity works in a Chinese restaurant run by a nudist, and Vicki-Ann ambitiously owns her own beauty parlor.14. Otto is hilarious as Dimity and Frith, who makes her feature film debut, gives Vicki-Ann a strange dignity. 15. Dimity ( Miranda Otto ) and Vicki-Ann ( Rebecca Frith ) are sisters ekeing out a living in a dying burg.16. This is the story of Dimity and Vicki-Ann Hurley, two very odd sisters living in a mythical Australian backwater called Sunray. 17. Vicki-Ann Hurley ( Rebecca Frith ) is all pastel femininity, while her sister Dimity ( Miranda Otto ) is a virginal tomboy. 18. But something is fishy with the laconic, unctuous Ken, who easily seduces Dimity then Vicki-Ann and turns them against each other. 19. Designer Jessica McClintock has come a long way from dimity -and-lace empire hippie dresses like the one Hillary Rodham was married in. 20. Just put a snub-nosed, cross-eyed, wry-lipped girl in plain white dimity _ saints and angels defend us!
