I Can't Get Started (film)

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I Can't Get Started
Directed by Rodney Fisher
Written by Ray Harding
Produced by Richard Brennan
Starring John Waters
Wendy Hughes
Heather Mitchell
Andrew McFarlane
Nicholas Opolski
Production
company
PBL Productions
Release date
1985
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.25 million [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p84