Robert Scott Hicks (born 4 March 1953) is a film director from Australia. He is best known as the screenwriter and director of Shine, the Oscar-winning biopic of pianist David Helfgott. Hicks's work has been nominated for an Academy Award as well as winning an Emmy Award.
Rhoda Penmark appears to be a pleasant, charming and obedient young girl, but when one of her classmates dies under mysterious circumstances, her mother Christine begins to suspect that Rhoda murdered him, and may have killed before.
