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Directed by | David Stevens |
Written by | Greg Millin |
Produced by | Robert Le Tet Bob Weis |
Starring | Chris Haywood Simon Burke Gerda Nicolson |
Cinematography | Ian Baker |
Edited by | Edward McQueen-Mason |
Music by | Red Symons |
Production companies | Generations Films The Film House |
Distributed by | Roadshow Film Distributors |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Budget | A$1 million [1] |
Box office | AU $414,000 |
The Clinic is a 1982 Australian comedy film produced by Robert Le Tet and Bob Weis and directed by David Stevens. The film is a comedy/drama describing a day in a Melbourne VD clinic focusing on four doctors and their patients. [2] It was distributed by Roadshow Film Distributors.
Medical student Paul Armstrong (Simon Burke) arrives at a busy Melbourne VD clinic to study the work of the specialists there. Over the course of his visit, the strait-laced Paul encounters a diverse array of patients including gay man Charlie (Geoff Parry), middle-class woman Nancy (Veronica Lang), Carl (Martin Sharman), who has contracted a sexual disease after cheating on his fiancée, and Warwick (Ned Lander), who has lost his job due to contracting a disease.
The Clinic was filmed in Melbourne and Deniliquin, Australia. [2] Seabrook House was used as the location of the fictional clinic at 573 Lonsdale Street, in Melbourne.
In 1983 the film received 2 AFI Award nominations for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Pat Evison) and Best Original Screenplay (Greg Millin). [3]
The Clinic grossed $414,000 at the box office in Australia, [4] which is equivalent to $1,092,960 in 2009 dollars.