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The Journalist

40
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1h 23m
Comedy
Starring Jack Thompson · Sam Neill · Elizabeth Alexander
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Comedy about a womanizing journalist on a Sydney newspaper who confronts job problems and impotence in the context of Australian media and politics of the 1970's. A somewhat lesser Australian film comparable to the American film Shampoo.

Director
Michael Thornhill
Producer
Pom Oliver
Music
Wayne Kent-Healing
Studio
New South Wales Film Corp., FJF Promoters
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Cast

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J
Jack Thompson
Simon Morris
S
Sam Neill
Rex
E
Elizabeth Alexander
Liz Corbett
P
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Gillie Griffiths
C
Charles Tingwell
Sid Mitchell
C
Carol Raye
Maggie
F
Frank Wilson
S
Stuart Wagstaff
R
Ray Meagher
A
Anna Hruby
K
Ken Goodlet
F
Frankie J. Holden

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