Heatwave (film)

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Heatwave
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Directed by Phillip Noyce
Written byMark Stiles
Tim Gooding
Phillip Noyce
Marc Rosenberg
Produced by Hilary Linstead
Starring Judy Davis
Richard Moir
Bill Hunter
CinematographyVincent Monton
Edited byJohn Scott
Music by Cameron Allan
Distributed byRoadshow Films
Release date
  • 1982 (1982)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetAU $1 million [1]
Box officeAU $267,000

Heatwave is a 1982 Australian film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the murder of Juanita Nielsen. It was the second of two films inspired by the story that came out at that time, the first being The Killing of Angel Street (1981).

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Plot

Around Christmas time, as a heatwave hits Sydney, an architect is undertaking a housing project for a brash Cockney immigrant developer, which becomes controversial when tenants and squatters refuse to move from houses intended for demolition.

Cast

Production

The original script was called King's Cross and was written by Tim Gooding and Mark Stiles. The final script was by Phil Noyce and Mark Rosenberg. [2] Phil Noyce:

Heatwave was the story of a working-class Protestant boy who made good. I don't know whether audiences realised that, but we had always assumed that he was a working-class Protestant and that Judy Davis's character was a middle-class Catholic girl. She, in the Catholic saintly tradition, had adopted a social cause - had set herself up as the spokesperson and protector of the working class. He, as a working-class boy, of course, was now forced to confront the moral implications of his own success and how that affected other people. In a way, the religious and ethnic backgrounds of the two characters were just a continuation of the conflicts that we had seen in Newsfront, but Australia had by this stage moved from a principally working-class and upper-class society to a principally middle-class society. That's captured in the atmosphere of inner Sydney, its buildings and the regulations of law and government. [3]

Reception

Reflecting on the film Noyce said:

I’d have no doubt shot it differently … told the story differently, today... Maybe that’s because I’m more conservative. I might have made the connections between the conspirators more certain, rather than implied. Heatwave belongs to a different era in Australian cinema, a time when we took a lot risks. I guess that comes with youth – the youth of the director and the youth of that second new wave of filmmakers. It was a time when there was a love affair between audiences and Australian cinema, something which these days is rather on and off. [1]

Awards

The film was nominated for two AFI Awards in 1982.

Box office

Heatwave grossed $267,000 at the box office in Australia, [4] which is equivalent to $776,970 in 2009 dollars.

Home media

Heatwave was released on DVD by Umbrella Entertainment in July 2007. The DVD is compatible with all region codes and includes special features such as the theatrical trailer, Umbrella Entertainment trailers, a stills gallery, and an interview with Phillip Noyce, Sweating It Out. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Urban, Andrew L (12 July 2007). "Risking Not Waving". Urban Cinefile. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012.
  2. ↑ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p215
  3. ↑ Interview with Phil Noyce, 8 September 1994. Retrieved 19 October 1994
  4. ↑ "Film Victoria - Australian Films at the Australian Box Office" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  5. ↑ "Umbrella Entertainment". Archived from the original on 17 November 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2013.

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