The Perfectionist

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The Perfectionist
Written byDavid Williamson
Date premieredSeptember 1981
Place premieredDrama Theatre, Sydney
Original languageEnglish

The Perfectionist is a play and telemovie by David Williamson about an academic who is working on a PhD. His wife hires a Danish student to babysit their children.

Film version[]

The Perfectionist
Directed byChris Thomson
Written byDavid Williamson
Produced byPatricia Lovell
StarringJacki Weaver
John Waters
Noel Ferrier
Steven Vidler
Production
companies
Roadshow, Coote & Carroll
Distributed byNetwork Ten
Release date
  • 1985 (1985)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$1,475,000[1][2]

In 1983 Patricia Lovell announced plans to produce a film version of the play directed by Williamson but they were unable to finance it. A telemovie was made in 1985.[3][4] The telemovie was subsequently sold in multiple international territories, but also for television and direct-to-video.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Production", Cinema Papers, March 1986 p63
  2. ^ "TIMESTYLE". The Canberra Times. 7 April 1985. p. 12. Retrieved 25 December 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p191
  4. ^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p37
  5. ^ David Williamson's The Perfectionist (1985). . Retrieved 2019-12-21.

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