Third Person Plural | |
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Directed by | James Ricketson |
Written by | James Ricketson |
Starring | Bryan Brown |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Budget | AU$30,000 [1] |
Third Person Plural is a 1978 film directed by James Ricketson and starring Bryan Brown. [2]
The script was devised by the actors and director in a workshop. [3]
Ricketson has since called the film an "experiment":
I just wanted to see whether it would be possible to make a film on that small budget, shoot the whole thing with a hand-held camera, integrate improvised dialogue with scripted dialogue, work with a small core of actors on a character-based piece, which is what I did, and then to approach the editing of the film in an innovative way. Now, I happen not to like the film myself. Having done the film - it was fun to do it - I decided that I didn't like it, and it certainly wasn't the direction that I wanted to go in. [4]
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