The Perfectionist

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.

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

Film version
The Perfectionist
Directed byChris Thomson
Produced byPatricia Lovell
Written byDavid Williamson
StarringJacki Weaver
John Waters
Noel Ferrier
Steven Vidler
Production
company
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). Ozmovies. Retrieved 2019-12-21.


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