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Film Details - Rough Nut Productions , 1994
Producers:
Peter Green.
Production Companies:
Rough Nut Productions.
Finance Organisations:
New South Wales Film And Television Office.
Film Finance Corporation.
Director of Photography:
Brian J. Breheny.
Editors:
Neil Thumpston.
Production Designers:
Robert Moxham.
Music:
David Skinner.
Main character Dirk Trent's local pub, where he spent much of of his time, is home in the film to a Ramones tribute band called The Exploding White Mice.
Cast:
Including Paul Chubb (Dirk Trent), Les Foxcroft (Mickey), Susan Lyons (Sandra Burnett), Peter Braunstein (Detective Tom McKenzie), Zoe Bertram (Laurel Trent), Frank Whitten (Dr Henderson), Jane Harders (Jane Lewis), John Batchelor (Axel), Rowan Woods (Professor Wauchop), Valerie Bader (Motel Manager), Sarah Lambert (Vicki Lane), Deborah Kennedy (Chantal), Jim Pike (Bartender), and Roy Billing (Sidebottom).
Release Dates:
December 1994 (Australia).
Was also taken to the Cannes Film Market.
Location:
- Filmed in Sydney, New South Wales.
Awards:
- AFI Award, Best Screenplay, Original (nomination), 1994.
- Audience Award, Fantafestival, 1995.
- Best Film (nomination), Mystfest, 1994.
