Cool Change (film)

Cool Change is a 1986 Australian action film directed by George T. Miller. It stars Jon Blake and Lisa Armytage.[3][4]

Cool Change
Directed byGeorge T. Miller
Produced byGeoff Burrowes
Dennis Wright
Written byPatrick Edgeworth
StarringJon Blake
Lisa Armytage
Deborra-Lee Furness
Music byBruce Rowland
CinematographyJohn Haddy
Production
company
Release date
10 April 1986
Running time
89 min.
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$3.5 million[1][2]
Box officeA$60,868 (Australia)

Plot

A park ranger is caught in a conflict between farmers and conservationists.

Cast

Production

The film was shot on location in Mansfield and the Victorian Alps.[5]

Critical reception

The critic from the Sydney Morning Herald called the movie "a spectacularly simplistic propaganda piece for the cattle farmers of the Victorian high plains".[6]

Box office

Cool Change grossed $60,868 at the box office in Australia,[7] which is equivalent to $132,692 in 2009 dollars.

References

  1. "Production", Cinema Papers, March 1986 p62
  2. "Features Drama at former vice-regal residence Hello, hello: the real men drop in". The Canberra Times. 23 December 1985. p. 21. Retrieved 24 December 2015 via National Library of Australia.
  3. http://allmovie.com/work/cool-change-81721
  4. David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p224
  5. Greg Kerr, "Cool Change", Australian Film 1978–1992, Oxford Uni Press 1993 p187
  6. "Son of Snowy", Sydney Morning Herald 17 April 1986. accessed 10 May 2013
  7. "Film Victoria - Australian Films at the Australian Box Office" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2010.


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