Going Sane

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Going Sane
Directed by Michael Robertson
Written byJohn Sandford
Produced by Tom Jeffrey
Starring John Waters
Linda Cropper
Judy Morris
Cinematography Dean Semler
Edited by Brian Kavanagh
Production
company
Sea Change Films
Release date
  • 30 July 1987 (1987-07-30)
Running time
89 mins
CountryAustralia
Language English
BudgetA$2.1 million [1]

Going Sane is a 1987 Australian comedy starring John Waters. It was one of several films made in the 1980s where Waters plays a character who has a mid life crisis. [2] In 1994 when asked to name his worst movie, Waters said Going Sane was the one "that failed to achieve its brief more than any other." [3]

Contents

Cast

Production

Filming started 15 July 1985. [4]

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References

  1. Keith Connolly, "Going Sane", Australian Film 1978-1992, Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p219
  2. David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p110
  3. "A cut above the rest". By: Doug Aiton. 6 May 1995. THE SUNDAY AGE reprinted at the John Waters fan site accessed 28 July 2013
  4. "Production", Cinema Papers, March 1986 p62