The City's Edge is a 1983 Australian film co-written by Aboriginal Australian writer Bob Merritt.[1]
Plot
Andy comes to Sydney and falls in love with the sister of a heroin addict.
Cast
- Tommy Lewis
- Hugo Weaving as Andy White
- Katrina Foster
- Mark Lee as Jim Wentworth
- Joanne Samuel as Prostitute 1
Production
The film was originally entitled Running Man and was never released theatrically in Australia although it was in the UK.[2]
Merritt later claimed he preferred to "write off" the experience but says it gave him the track record to make Short Changed (1985).[3]
References
- ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 26
- ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 205
- ^ Mary Colbert, "Positive action: Bob Merritt, playwright and screenwriter", Cinema Papers, May 1985 p. 24
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