High Tide is a 1987 Australian drama film starring Judy Davis, from a script by Laura Jones, about the mother-daughter bond, directed by Gillian Armstrong.

Then, sacked at the beginning of winter she is stranded due to a defective car in a ramshackle beach town on the windswept coast of New South Wales.

Bet isn't a monster, she's simply the wrong person to be raising the pensive Ally, who is an introvert, like her mother.

But then Armstrong went to see Wrong World at the cinema, which was about a male drifter, and the more she thought about the more she felt there had been plenty of films about a man being reunited with their child such as Paper Moon and Paris Texas.

[5] In 2021, Claudia Karvan recalled, I was 14 when I got cast in the film High Tide, which starred Judy Davis as my mother.

I was just a normal teenager who was, sadly, not watching a lot of Australian productions; I hadn’t seen My Brilliant Career, so I was completely ignorant to who Judy [Davis] was and what sort of reputation she came with.

I remember a moment when they called “Wrap!” and she yelled, “Woo hoo!” and went dancing across the paddock, skipping off set.

[8]Karvan also recalled, "Gillian Armstrong was such a unique voice, and to be working with such extraordinary women, and to have Judy Davis play my mum, it was an absolute one off.