The Place at the Coast

The Place at the Coast is a 1987 Australian drama film directed by George Ogilvie and starring John Hargreaves. Given the working title "The Bee Eater",[3] it was based on an unpublished novel by Jane Hyde, provisionally called "At Kilkee"[4] but subsequently published with the same name as the film.[5]

The Place at the Coast
Directed byGeorge Ogilvie
Screenplay byHilary Furlong
Based onThe Place at the Coast
by Jane Hyde
Produced byHilary Furlong
StarringJohn Hargreaves
Heather Mitchell
Tushka Bergen
CinematographyJeff Darling
Edited byNicholas Beauman
Music byChris Neal
Release date
17 September 1987
Running time
111 min
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$2.4 million[1]
Box officeA$57,400 (Australia)[2]

Plot

Young Ellie McAdam's passion and shelter is the pristine landscape surrounding the village of Kilkee on the Australian east coast where she and her father Neil, an abstracted widower, spend peaceful holidays in a ramshackle beach house disrupted by visits from their obstreperous extended family. When Neil is blinded by the sudden rediscovery of love, Ellie finds herself isolated in her opposition to a development that will destroy the landscape forever.

Cast

Nominations

Australian Film Institute Awards[6]

References
  1. "Australian Productions Top $175 million", Cinema Papers, March 1986 p64
  2. "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria. Retrieved 24 October 2012
  3. "Features: Movie team on location at the beach". The Canberra Times. Vol. 60, no. 18, 447. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 April 1986. p. 13. Retrieved 18 July 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "The Place at the Coast". The Australian Jewish News. Vol. 26, no. 6. Victoria, Australia. 10 November 1989. p. 29. Retrieved 18 July 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p365-366
  6. Awards for The Place at the Coast IMDB. Retrieved on 3 June 2011


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