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Screen cap from promotional trailer
Is part of
Danny Embling Trilogy
1987
series - author
film/TV
Issue Details:
First known date:
1991...
1991
Flirting
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Film Details - Kennedy Miller Entertainment , 1991
Producers:
Terry Hayes (Producer)
George Miller (Producer)
Doug Mitchell (Producer)
Barbara Gibbs (Assicate
Production Companies:
Kennedy Miller Entertainment
Director of Photography:
Geoff Burton
Editors:
Robert Gibson
Production Designers:
Roger Ford
Composer:
James D'Arcy (fight music)
Cast:
Noah Taylor (Danny Embling), Thandie Newton (Thandiwe Adjewa), Nicole Kidman (Nicola Radcliffe), Bartholomew Rose ('Gilby' Fryer), Felix Nobis (Jock Blair), Josh Picker ('Backa' Bourke), Kiri Paramore ('Slag' Green), Marc Aden [as Marc Gray] (Christopher Laidlaw), Gregg Palmer (Colin Proudfoot), Joshua Marshall ('Cheddar' Fedderson), David Wieland ('Possum' Piper), Craig Black ('Pup' Pierdon), Les Hill (Greg Gilmore), Jeff Truman (Mr. Morris Cutts), Marshall Napier (Mr. Rupert Elloitt), John Dicks (Rev. Consti Nicholson), Kym Wilson (Melissa Miles), Naomi Watts (Janet Odgers), Lisa Spinadel (Barbara Howe), Francesca Raft (Fiona Spry), Louise Hannan (Theresa Bradley), Danielle Lyttleton (Jean Thomas),Jacqui Fifer (Stacey Burt), Fiona Press (Mrs. Archer), Maggie Blinco (Miss Guinevere MacReady), Jane Harders (Miss Sylvia Anderson), Malcolm Robertson (Bruce Embling), Judi Farr (Shella Embling), Freddie Paris (Solomon Adjewa), Femi Taylor (Letitia Adjewa), Gillian Hyde (Dr. Alison Pierce), Harry Lawrence (Motel Manager), Michael Williams (Sonny Liston), Kurt Frey (Jean-Paul Sartre).
Release Dates:
1. Premiered in Australia on 21 March 1991. Other commercial release dates include UK (25 October 1991), USA (6 November 1992 - New York City), USA (14 November 1992), Denmark (21 August 2003 - TV premiere).
2. Released on videocassette format in Australia and the USA ca. 1993 by Warner Home Video and in the UK in 1996. Re-released in Australia and the USA on DVD format ca. 2002 by MGM Home Entertainment. Released on DVD format in Canada in 2003 by Alliance Releasing Corp.
Location:
- Filmed largely on location in Braidwood, Bathurst and Sydney (New South Wales)
Awards:
- Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards (1990) Best Achievement in Editing - Robert Gibson (winner)
- Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards (1990) Best Achievement in Production Design - Roger Ford (winner)
- Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards (1990) Best Film - George Miller, Doug Mitchell and Terry Hayes (winner)
- Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards (1990) Best Achievement in Cinematography -Geoff Burton (nomination)
- Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards (1990) Best Achievement in Sound - Antony Gray, Ross Linton and Phil Judd (nomination)
- Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards (1990) Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Bartholomew Rose (nomination)
Notes:
Also known as Den Första Kärleken (Sweden), Flertando - Aprendendo a Viver (Brazil), Flirting - Spiel mit der Liebe (Germany), La Primera Experiencia (Spain).
Settings:
- Country towns,
- Urban,
- 1965
