Going Down (film)

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]

Going Down
Directed byHaydn Keenan
Written byMoira MacLaine-Cross, Julie Barry, Melissa Woods (also credited as "Additional Directed Material")
StarringTracy Mann
David Argue
Release date
1983
Running time
92 min
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$400,000[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]

References

  1. Mark Swayer, 'The morning after the night before', Sydney Morning Herald, 15 April 2011 accessed 13 October 2012
  2. David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p144
  3. "Video Overview Going Down (1983) on ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online". aso.gov.au. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  4. Haydn Keenan, 'Going Down', AACMI, January 2008 Archived 28 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine accessed 13 October 2012


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