Out of It (1977 film)

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Out of It
Directed by Ken Cameron
Written byKen Cameron
Produced byKen Cameron
StarringGlenn Mason
Chris Haywood
George Spartels
Cinematography David Gribble
Edited byDavid Huggett
Music byRobert Murphy
Release date
  • 1977 (1977)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget$23,000

Out of It is a 1977 Australian film created by Ken Cameron. It is a road movie where three unemployed friends head north after a robbery went wrong. [1]

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Barbara Aylsen of Filmnews said "As a portrait of the vacuum that is often euphemistically called youth it's nostaliga (sic) if you care to remember, and an insight if you want to find out." [1] Sandra Hall, writing for the Bulletin, called it "a nicely ironic story about three likable bumblers caught up in petty crime on the outskirts of F. J. Holden country." [2] When it aired on Chanel Ten in 1980 Don Groves wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald "On a tiny budget ($23,000), writer-director Ken Cameron has achieved a remarkably high standard of film-making." [3] In 1986 it was showcased on The Cutting Room [4] where the Age's Judith Fox called it "an essay on the Aussie loser, a road movie which investigates the loss of focus of three youths as a journey in itself." [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Aylsen, Barbara (1 August 1977), "Out of It", Filmnews
  2. Hall, Barbara (16 July 1977), "Short, but packing a punch", Filmnews
  3. Groves, Don (13 January 1980), "Cameron's film a pointer to the ills of our times", The Sydney Morning Herald
  4. "Wednesday", The Age, 26 December 1985
  5. Fox, Judith (16 December 1985), "The Cutting Room", The Age