A Sting in the Tale

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A Sting in the Tail
Directed byEugene Schlusser
Written by Patrick Edgeworth
Based onstory by Rosa Colosimo
Patrick Edgworth
Reg McLdean
Eugene Schlusser
Produced byRosa Colosimo
Reg McLean
Starring Diane Craig
Gary Day
CinematographyNicholas Sherman
Edited byZbygniew Friedrich
Music byAlan Zavod
Production
company
Rosa Colosimo Films
Release date
November 1989
Running time
92 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

A Sting in the Tale is a 1989 Australian political satire film directed by Eugene Schlusser and starring Diane Craig and Gary Day. [1]

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Plot

Diane Lane (Diane Craig) is elected to Canberra as an MP. Her married lover, Barry Robbins (Gary Day), is Minister for Health and her best friend is journalist Louise Parker (Lynne Williams).

Barry wants to depose the current prime minister and tries to enlist the support of media baron Roger Monroe (Edwin Hodgeman). However, Diane is angry at Monroe for suppressing news of negligence in a mining disaster which killed her father and twenty others.

Diane leaks a document to embarrass the government about its plans for media ownership. The prime minister appoints her as minister to the arts in order to control her.

Diane then discovers Monroe has planted someone in her office to watch her. She tries to bring down Monroe and become Australia's first female prime minister.

Cast

Production

The film was shot in Adelaide. [2]

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References

  1. David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 225
  2. Paul Harris, "A Sting in the Tail", Australian Film 1978–1992, Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p. 287