Middle Age Spread
{{for|the play|Middle-Age Spread}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Middle Age Spread
| image = Middle Age Spread.jpg
| caption =
| director = John Reid
| producer = John Barnett
| writer = {{ubl|Roger Hall (play)|Keith Aberdein (screenplay)}}
| starring = {{ubl|Grant Tilly|Donna Akersten|Dorothy McKegg|Bridget Armstrong|Bevan Wilson|Peter Sumner}}
| music = Stephen McCurdy
| cinematography = Alun Bollinger
| editing = Michael Horton
| distributor = Endeavour Productions
| released = {{Film date|1979}}
| runtime = 98 minutes
| country = New Zealand
| language = English
| budget =
}}
Middle Age Spread is a 1979 American film; it is an adaptation of the Roger Hall play of the same name.{{Cite book |last=Goble |first=Alan |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/The_Complete_Index_to_Literary_Sources_i/Yyqc0Qa6b60C?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Middle+Age+Spread++film&pg=PA203&printsec=frontcover |title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film |date=2011-09-08 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-095194-3 |language=en}} This is John Reid's directorial feature debut.{{Cite book |last=Cowie |first=Peter |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/International_Film_Guide_1981/BNVkAAAAMAAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&bsq=Middle+Age+Spread++film&dq=Middle+Age+Spread++film&printsec=frontcover |title=International Film Guide 1981 |date=1981 |publisher=A. S. Barnes, Incorporated |isbn=978-0-498-02530-3 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Conrich |first=Ian |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/New_Zealand_Filmmakers/CPOrdHk0rlcC?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Middle+Age+Spread++grant+tilly&pg=PA241&printsec=frontcover |title=New Zealand Filmmakers |last2=Murray |first2=Stuart |date=2007 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |isbn=978-0-8143-3017-3 |language=en}}
Plot
A deputy principal of a high school takes up jogging to combat a spreading waistline and gradually enters into an affair with a co-worker's wife when his wife loses interest in him.
Cast
- Grant Tilly – Colin
- Donna Akersten – Judy
- Dorothy McKegg – Elizabeth
- Bridget Armstrong – Isobel
- Bevan Wilson – Robert
- Peter Sumner – Reg
References
- New Zealand Film 1912–1996 by Helen Martin & Sam Edwards p. 69 (1997, Oxford University Press, Auckland) {{ISBN|019 558336 1}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|79552}}
- [http://www.nzvideos.org/middle.html Middle Age Spread (1979)] at New Zealand Feature Film Database
Category:1970s New Zealand films
Category:New Zealand comedy films
Category:New Zealand films based on plays
Category:1990s English-language films
Category:1970s English-language films
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