Blowing Hot and Cold
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{{Infobox film
| name = Blowing Hot and Cold
| image = Blowing Hot and Cold 1989 poster.jpg
| caption =
| director = Marc Gracie
| writer = Rosa Colosimo
Sergio Donati
Reg McLean
Luciano Vincenzoni
| based_on =
| producer = Rosa Colosimo
| starring = Joe Dolce
Peter Adams
| narrator =
| cinematography = James Grant
| editing = Nicolas Lee
| music = Joe Dolce
| studio = Chancom Limited
Colosimo Film Productions
| distributor = Filmtrust
| released = {{Film date|1989|08}}
| runtime = 85 mins
| country = Australia
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Blowing Hot and Cold is a 1989 Australian comedy-drama film directed by Marc Gracie and starring Joe Dolce and Peter Adams. The plot is about an Italian who befriends a garage owner whose daughter has run off with a drug dealer.
Premise
Two people from Italy and Australia set their cultural differences aside to search for a girl who ran off with a drug dealer.
Cast
- Peter Adams as Jack Phillips
- Joe Dolce as Nino Patrovita
- Kate Gorman as Sally Phillips
Production
It was originally announced the film would be made in 1984 starring Arkie Whiteley directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith.David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 90Nick Roddick, "For deaf, read Italian", Cinema Papers, September 1985 pp. 13–14{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article125006756 |title=Whitely to star in film |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=58 |issue=17,744 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=28 April 1984 |accessdate=29 August 2018 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}}
The film was shot in Redesdale, Victoria, Kyneton, Diggers Rest, Victoria, Taradale, Victoria and Melbourne.Scott Murray, "Blowing Hot and Cold", Australian Film 1978–1992, Oxford Uni Press 1993 p. 265
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0096956}}
- [http://www.ozmovies.com.au/movie/blowing-hot-and-cold Blowing Hot and Cold] at Oz Movies
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Category:1989 comedy-drama films
Category:Films with screenplays by Sergio Donati
Category:Films with screenplays by Luciano Vincenzoni
Category:Films shot in Melbourne
Category:Australian comedy-drama films
Category:1980s English-language films
Category:1980s Australian films
Category:English-language comedy-drama films
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