Get Away, Get Away

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Get Away, Get Away
Directed by Murray Fahey
Written byMurray Fahey
Produced byMurray Fahey
StarringMurray Fahey
CinematographyPeter Borosh
Edited by Brian Kavanagh
Music byFrank Strangio
Production
company
Coventry Films
Release date
  • 1993 (1993)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Get Away, Get Away is a 1993 Australian Road Comedy film which was the directorial debut of actor Murray Fahey.

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Plot

Bank teller Rick Carter (Murray Fahey) gets away for the weekend on the advice of used car salesman Andrew (Glennen C.C. Fahey). He runs into a beautiful French hitchhiker, Suzette (Annie Davies), and some criminals, Carl the Mouth (Ewan Campbell) and Benny the Brain (Ned Manning).

Cast

Production

The film was shot in Sydney over two weeks on 16mm from January 1991 to August 1992. [1]

Release

It was not released theatrically in Australia but did sell overseas. [2]

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References

  1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 66
  2. Anne Marie Lopez, "Everyone Together Now: Low Budget Filmmaking in Australia", Cinema Papers July 1997 pp. 18–21