Dear Cardholder

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Dear Cardholder
Dear Cardholder.jpg
Directed by Bill Bennett
Written byBill Bennett
Produced byBill Bennett
Starring Robin Ramsay
Jennifer Cluff
Production
company
Mermaid Beach Productions
Distributed byHome Cinema Group (video)
Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryAustralia
Language English
BudgetA$500,000 [1]

Dear Cardholder is a 1987 Australian film about a man who gets into debt on his credit cards. [2] The film failed to find a cinema release, and its director, Bill Bennett, thinks that he made a mistake in not making the film funny enough or its protagonist sufficiently sympathetic. [1] He also says that he probably did not spend enough time on its script. [3]

Contents

"It's a serious topic with an amusing premise," he said. [4]

Cast

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References

  1. 1 2 David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p318
  2. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p41
  3. "Interview with Bill Bennett", Signet, 11 April 1996 accessed 17 November 2012
  4. "Trials of a no frill director". The Sydney Morning Herald. 27 October 1986. p. 13.