Skin Deep (1984 film) explained

Genre:Drama
Director:Chris Langman
Mark Joffe
Starring:David Reyne
Briony Behets
Carmen Duncan
Kate Fitzpatrick
James Smilie
Nicole Kidman
Country:Australia
Language:English
Executive Producer:Ian Bradley
Producer:Stanley Walsh
Editor:Philip Howe
Cinematography:Ray Henman
Runtime:92 minutes
Company:PBL Productions
Released:[1]

Skin Deep is a 1984 Australian television film produced by PBL Productions for Channel 9. It was directed by Chris Langman and Mark Joffe and stars Briony Behets and Carmen Duncan and features an early appearance by Nicole Kidman.[1]

Set in the fashion industry, it was one of the few Australian films to be set in this milieu and was an attempt to do an Australian Dallas or Dynasty.[2]

Plot

Barbara Kennedy is a successful business woman in the fashion and modelling industry. In the lead up to a fashion designers awards night, her boyfriend Cliff proposes to her. But then she realises that one of her own models is her illegitimate daughter, placed for adoption years earlier. She has a bitchy rival Vanessa. And a murderer is loose.

Cast

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Notes and References

  1. "The 1985 Production File", Sydney Morning Herald, 17 December 1984 p 37
  2. Peter Malone: Skin Deep, (via archive.org)