Handle with Care (1985 film)

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Handle with Care
Directed by Paul Cox
Written by Anne Brooksbank
Produced byAndrena Finlay
Anne Landa
Starring Lucinda Cowden
Anna Maria Monticelli
Production
company
Alsof
Distributed byNetwork 10
Release date
  • 1985 (1985)
Running time
75 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Handle with Care is a 1985 Australian television film directed by Paul Cox and starring Lucinda Cowden and Anna Maria Monticelli. The screenplay concerns two women with breast cancer. [1] [2]

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References

  1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p76
  2. Hunter, Allan (1991). Chambers film and television handbook. Chambers. ISBN   9780550172501.