Say You Want Me

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Say You Want Me
Directed byOliver Howes
Written by Laura Jones
Produced byDon Harley
Starring Belinda Giblin
Serge Lazareff
Hugh Keays-Byrne
Tom Oliver
Henri Szeps
Tex Morton
Production
company
Distributed byNine Network
Release dates
  • 6 June 1979 (1979-06-06)(Sydney)
  • 1 April 1980 (1980-04-01)(Melbourne)
Running time
90 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Budget$150,000 [1]

Say You Want Me is a 1977 Australian film directed by Oliver Howes. It is about a woman who is raped by one of her husband's business associates. [2]

Contents

The film was one of two television movies made by Film Australia for the Nine Network. (The other was A Good Thing Going .) It was shot in 1977 but not screened until 1979. [1]

Premise

Julie Crosby (Belinda Giblin), wife of radio presenter Tony (Serge Lazareff) is raped by property developer Harry Kirby (Hugh Keays-Byrne). Tony struggles to accept it and accuses Julie of leading Kirby on. Julie goes to the police but struggles to find corroborating evidence for her case.

Cast

Reception

Don Groves of the Sun Herald called it "a muddled, murky film riddled with absurdities" feeling it was not realistic that the wife would not report the rape straight away and that the husband would blame the wife. [1]

Christine Hogan of the Sydney Morning Herald thought the script was "full of holes". [3]

Awards

Belinda Giblin’s performance earned her an award for Best Actress in a single TV performance at the Sammy Awards. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Groves, Don (3 June 1979). "Bring back the Oracle". Sun Herald. p. 63.
  2. ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p136
  3. ↑ Hogan, Christine (4 June 1979). "Let down by the script". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 13.
  4. ↑ Hogan, Christine (18 October 1979). "Marcia Hines and Mike Walsh Win top TV awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 12.


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