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Screen cap from opening credits
Adaptation of
Puberty Blues
1979
single work
novel
Issue Details:
First known date:
1981...
1981
Puberty Blues
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Film Details - Limelight Productions , 1981
Producers:
Margaret Kelly
Joan Long
Production Companies:
Limelight Productions
Finance Organisations:
Australian Film Commission
Director of Photography:
Donald McAlpine
Editors:
William W. Anderson
Jeanine Chiavlo
Production Designers:
David Copping
Composer:
Tim Finn
Les Cock
Cast:
Incl. Nell Schofield (Debbie Vickers), Jad Capelja (Sue Knight), Geoff Rhoe (Garry), Tony Hughes (Danny), Sandy Paul (Tracy), Leander Brett (Cheryl), Jay Hackett (Bruce), Ned Lander (Strach), Joanne Olsen (Vicki), Julie Medana (Kim), Michael Shearman (Glenn), Dean Dunstone (Seagull), Tina Robinson Hansen (Freda - as Tina Robinson), Nerida Clark (Carol), Kirrily Nolan (Mrs Vickers), Alan Cassell (Mr Vickers), Rowena Wallace (Mrs Knight), Charles 'Bud' Tingwell (The Headmaster), Kate Sheil (Mrs Velland), Pamela Gibbons (Jazz ballet teacher), Lynne Murphy (Mrs Hennessy), Andrew Martin (Mr Berkhoff ), Rob Thomas (Car salesman), Brian Harrison (Mr Little), Brian Anderson (Drive-in attendant).
Release Dates:
10 December 1981 (Australia). The film received limited release in the USA (beginning 15 July 1983) and in West Germany (27 August 1982). It was also screened at the 1982 Manila International Film Festival.
Location:
- Filmed largely on location at Cronulla, New South Wales.
Notes:
Also known as Al Diablo la Pubertad (Spain), Explosão da Puberdade (Portugal), Nuoruus Blues (Finland), Opowiesci o Rozkwitaniu (Poland), and Puberty Blues - Scharf Aufs Erste Mal (West Germany).
Settings:
- Coast,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- ca. 1972
