Daydream Believer (1992 film)

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Daydream Believer
Daydream Believer film poster.jpg
Directed byKathy Mueller
Written by Saturday Rosenberg
Produced by Ben Gannon
Starring Miranda Otto
Martin Kemp
Gia Carides
Cinematography Andrew Lesnie
Edited byRobert Gibson
Music by Todd Hunter
Johanna Pigott
Production
companies
Beyond Films
View Films
Australian Film Finance Corporation
Distributed by Hoyts-Fox-Columbia TriStar Films
Release dates
  • 7 August 1992 (1992-08-07)(United Kingdom)
  • 22 May 1993 (1993-05-22)(Australia)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Box officeA$24,885 (Australia) [1]

Daydream Believer aka The Girl Who Came Late (working title) is a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film starring Miranda Otto, Martin Kemp and Gia Carides; and directed by Kathy Mueller. Otto was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award for "Best Actress in a Lead Role". [2]

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Plot

The 'Girl' of the working title is Nell Tiscowitz (Otto), a struggling actress with an affinity for horses. [3] She meets wealthy rock music promoter and stable owner Digby Olsen (Kemp). Nell's best friend and flatmate, Wendy (Carides) provides dubious love-lorn advice. After Nell uses her 'telepathy' to help Digby tame horses they eventually fall in love.

Cast

Production

The film was one of five films financed by the FFC Film Fund in 1990. Otto was cast after over 200 girls auditioned; it was only her second major role, after Emma's War . The role of Digby entailed looking at actors from London and Los Angeles; after Martin Kemp was cast, the occupation of the character was changed from theatre entrepreneur to rock promoter. [4]

Release

Ozmovies says of the release:

The film was given a short release at four Hoyts cinemas (including Hoyts Centre) in Sydney, beginning 3rd September 1992, but other bookings were very limited... (It) had a frosty reception from newspaper reviewers at the time of its limited domestic release, which saw only Sydney papers (and the national The Australian) take a look at it. [5]

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References

  1. "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria accessed 12 November 2012
  2. "The Girl Who Came Late (1991) – Awards". Internet Movie Database . Retrieved 28 October 2007.
  3. "Daydream Believer Press Kit" (PDF). Beyond Films. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 28 October 2007.
  4. Eva Friedman, "Kathy Mueller's Daydream Believer", Cinema Papers, May–June 1992 p16-18
  5. 'Daydream Believer' at Ozmovies, accessed 14 October 2017.