Beyond My Reach

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Beyond My Reach
Directed byDan Burstall
Written by Frank Howson
Philip Dalkin
Produced byFrank Howson
Starring Terri Garber
Alan Fletcher
David Roberts
CinematographyPeter Bilcock
Edited byPeter Carrodus
Production
company
Release date
  • 1990 (1990)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Beyond My Reach is a 1990 Australian film starring Terri Garber. [1] It was shot in Melbourne and Los Angeles. [2]

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Plot

Two Australian friends, a director and a writer, decide to seek their luck in Los Angeles. [3]

Cast

Production

In 1983 Howson announced he had written a stage musical called Beyond My Reach which he hoped would be directed by Rodney Fisher. "It is about people who try to succeed so much that they end up with success and very little else," he said. "Although it uses the show business model, it's the sort of message that can be applied to anyone who's tryig to succeed." [4]

Howson had made three films directed by Pino Amenta but the two men had a falling out when Howson wanted to direct Hunting himself. Howson claimed he wanted Amento to direct Beyond My Reach "but his girlfriend, a make-up artist of little note caused some problems and that was it. And t-t-t-that’s showbiz, folks. Egos, egos, egos." [5]

Reception

The film was not theatrically released in Australia but screened widely on cable. Filmink said "it’s well acted (Howson once more showed his eye for talent by giving a lead role to Alan Fletcher) and has interesting themes… it just feels like it’s written too hurriedly. There are good moments, like a sequence demonstrating the impact of violence on screen." [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Beyond My Reach at Signis May 2012
  2. ↑ Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 13
  3. ↑ Beyond My Reach at National Film and Sound Archive
  4. ↑ "Frank Howson faces life after children's musicals". The Age. 11 January 1983. p. 10.
  5. ↑ "Producer and Writer Frank Howson on Laura Branigan, the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the Art of Creation and more…". Cult Film Alley. 13 July 2019.
  6. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (21 February 2024). "Frank Howson: The Unsung Auteur". Filmink.


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