Hotel Sorrento is a film based on the play of the same name by Hannie Rayson. It will be of particular interest and relevance to student English, Australian Studies, Contemporary Society and Media Studies. Hilary, the eldest of the three sisters, lives at home in Sorrento, with her son, Troy and her widowed father, Wal. Wal is set in his ways. He's got his mates, goes fishing and every day goes down to the pub. Like many men of his generation, he took his wife for granted, although not consciously maltreating her, he was unresponsive to the needs of his wife and daughters and lived his life the way he wanted to. Of the three sisters, Hilary is 'ordinary and sensible.' Meg is caught in a cultural cringe between her beloved home in Sorrento and her new life as a celebrated writer in London, and Pippa is living in new York, yet longing for her family top recognize her new success and to accept her as an adult. In the story, Meg Moynihan has been nominated for the Booker Prize for a novel which is allegedly autobiographical, but much of this is so-called autobiographical content relates to events in their own family history which has never been discussed and this is where the drama starts.