Get Away, Get Away Explained

Get Away, Get Away
Director:	Murray Fahey
Producer:	Murray Fahey
Starring:	Murray Fahey
Music:	Frank Strangio
Cinematography:	Peter Borosh
Editing:	Brian Kavanagh
Studio:	Coventry Films
Runtime:	86 minutes
Country:	Australia
Language:	English

Get Away, Get Away is a 1993 Australian Road Comedy film which was the directorial debut of actor Murray Fahey.

Plot

Bank teller Rick Carter (Murray Fahey) gets away for the weekend on the advice of used car salesman Andrew (Glennen C.C. Fahey). He runs into a beautiful French hitchhiker, Suzette (Annie Davies), and some criminals, Carl the Mouth (Ewan Campbell) and Benny the Brain (Ned Manning).

Cast

• Murray Fahey as Rick Carter
• Glennen C.C. Fahey as Andrew
• Annie Davies as Suzette
• Ewan Campbell as Carl the Mouth
• Rodd Hibbard as Darren the Cafe
• Ned Manning as Benny the Brain

Production

The film was shot in Sydney over two weeks on 16mm from January 1991 to August 1992.^[1]

Release

It was not released theatrically in Australia but did sell overseas.^[2]

External links

• • Get Away, Get Away at Screen Australia

Notes and References

1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 66
2. Anne Marie Lopez, "Everyone Together Now: Low Budget Filmmaking in Australia", Cinema Papers July 1997 pp. 18–21