Closer and Closer Apart

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| name = Closer and Closer Apart

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| director = Steve Middleton

| producer = Rosa Colosimo

| writer = Angela Salamanca

| based_on = opera La Cavalleria Rusticana by MascagniScott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p. 27

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| starring = Steve Bastoni
George Harlem
Marie-Louise Walker

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| studio = Rosa Colosimo Films

| distributor = Force Video (video)

| released = {{Film date|1989}}

| runtime = 88 minutes

| country = Australia

| language = English

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Closer and Closer Apart is a 1989 Australian film set in the Italian community of Melbourne. The story concerns a quarter of working-class people in their twenties.David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 119