Leonora (film)

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Leonora
Directed byDerek Strahan
Written byDerek Strahan
Produced byGeoffrey Brown
StarringMandi Miller
David Evans
Leon Marvel
Angela Menzies-Wills
CinematographyGeoffrey Brown
Production
company
Revolve Pty Limited
Distributed byShowcase
Release date
  • 1985 (1985)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$500,000 [1]

Leonora is a 1985 Australian sex film about a couple who have an open marriage. [2]

Contents

Plot

Ex motor ace Simon Erickson pushes his wife Leonara into an open marriage. She has an affair with Mark Trainer.

Release

The movie was not released theatrically and went straight to video. [3]

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References

  1. "Production", Cinema Papers, March 1986, p. 62
  2. David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990, p. 137
  3. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford University Press, 1996 p. 99