Going Down (film)

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Going Down
Directed byHaydn Keenan
Written byMoira MacLaine-Cross, Julie Barry, Melissa Woods (also credited as "Additional Directed Material")
StarringTracy Mann
Vera Plevnik
Julie Barry
Moira MacLaine-Cross
Release date
1983
Running time
92 min
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$400,000[1]

Going Down is a 1982 Australian film about young people living in a share house.[2] One writer said of it that "no film I've seen has better captured the chaotic heartbeat of the young sensation-seeker's Sydney."[1]

The film's one-liner reads: "Four women friends leave behind the feral days of youth after a night of uncontrolled excess in inner-city Sydney during the early 1980s."[3]

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Release[edit]

The film was self-distributed and ran for 14 weeks in Sydney but performed poorly in Melbourne.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Mark Swayer, 'The morning after the night before', Sydney Morning Herald, 15 April 2011 accessed 13 October 2012
  2. ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p144
  3. ^ "Video Overview Going Down (1983) on ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online". aso.gov.au. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  4. ^ Haydn Keenan, 'Going Down', AACMI, January 2008 Archived 28 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine accessed 13 October 2012

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