Going Down (film) explained

Going Down
Starring:Tracy Mann
Vera Plevnik
Julie Barry
Moira MacLaine-Cross
Director:Haydn Keenan
Runtime:92 min
Country:Australia
Language:English
Budget:A$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]

Cast

Release

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

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/the-morning-after-the-night-before-20110415-1dhfs.html Mark Swayer, 'The morning after the night before', Sydney Morning Herald, 15 April 2011
  2. David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p144
  3. Web site: Video Overview Going Down (1983) on ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online . 2022-12-07 . aso.gov.au.
  4. http://www.acmi.net.au/FF680D989FCB43FCAC59A671FCB5872C.aspx Haydn Keenan, 'Going Down', AACMI, January 2008