Bigger Than Tina

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Bigger Than Tina
Directed byNeil Foley
Written byNeil Foley
Produced byGrant Hardie
Jenny Loncaris
executive
Daniel Scharf
StarringMichael Dalley
Sally Lightfoot
Anni Finsterer
Distributed byPalace (Australia)
Release date
  • 25 November 1999 (1999-11-25)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Box office$15,000 (Australia) [1]

Bigger Than Tina is a 1999 Australian film about a young man obsessed with Tina Arena. [2]

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Plot

Dan Vardy-Cobb is an aspiring singer-songwriter living in the outer suburbs of Melbourne who dreams of becoming as successful as Tina Arena. He is taken on by talent agents Wes Grieves and Jacinta Fellows.

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