The Best of Friends (film)
| The Best of Friends | |
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| Directed by | Michael Robertson |
| Written by | Donald MacDonald |
| Produced by | Tom Jeffrey |
| Starring | Graeme Blundell Angela Punch McGregor Ruth Cracknell Mark Lee |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
The Best of Friends is a 1982 Australian romantic comedy about two best friends who have an affair one night, resulting in the woman becoming pregnant.
Cast
[edit]- Graeme Blundell as Tom
- Angela Punch McGregor as Melanie
- Ruth Cracknell as Iris
- Mark Lee as Bruce
- Serge Lazareff as Colin
Production
[edit]The script won $10,000 in a competition by the New South Wales Film Corporation for best original quality.[1] Neville Wran presented the writer and director with the cheque.[2]
Angela Punch McGregor later claimed that:
It was an excellent script. It was then mutilated by all of us. [Writer] Donald McDonald was very upset about it. The film was badly handled and I was miscast but I took it because I wanted the challenge of doing a comedy, which I hadn't done before. I thought my role was well written and wasn't cardboard... The director wasn't up to it, the film was miscast, the budget wasn't good.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p109
- ^ "A winner with his first film script". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 7 February 1979. p. 21. Retrieved 3 June 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ Jim Schembri, "Angela Punch McGregor", Cinema Papers, December 1984 p 421
External links
[edit]- The Best of Friends at IMDb
- The Best of Friends at Oz Movies
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