Return Home
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{{Infobox film
| name = Return Home
| image = Return Home 1990 poster.jpg
| caption =
| producer = Cristina Pozzan
| director = Ray Argall
| writer = Ray Argall
| starring = Dennis Coard
Frankie J. Holden
Ben Mendelsohn
| music =
| cinematography = Mandy Walker
| editing = Ken Sallows
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1990|08|02|Australia|1990|08|03|United States|df=y}}
| runtime = 87 minutes
| country = Australia
| language = English
| budget = A$350,000David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p121{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213878750 |title=The Film Victoria training ground |newspaper=Filmnews |volume=21 |issue=10 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=1 November 1991 |accessdate=23 March 2025 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}
}}
Return Home is a 1990 Australian drama film directed by Ray Argall. Argall won the AFI Award for Best Director in 1990 and Frankie J. Holden was nominated for Best Actor in a Lead Role.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100479/awards IMDb awards]
Plot
Noel McKenzie is a successful but divorced insurance broker in Melbourne. He returns briefly to hometown Adelaide where his brother Steve operates a traditional service station and workshop. Steve has a happy family life but is struggling to compete with more modern gas stations with convenience stores and self-service bowsers. Over time the brothers reconcile to each other’s life choices and recognise value in the family life they had in the suburb they grew up in.
Cast
- Dennis Coard as Noel
- Frankie J. Holden as Steve
- Ben Mendelsohn as Gary
- Mickey Camilleri as Judy
- Rachel Rains as Wendy
- Gypsy Lukewood as Clare
- Ryan Rawlings as Wally
- Paul Nestor as Brian
- Alan Fletcher as Barry
Joe Camilleri appears as a busking friend of Noel.
Production
The film was funded by the Australian Film Commission and Film Victoria with no private investment. It was shot in Adelaide over six weeks in February–March 1989 on 16mm but the AFC agreed to blow it up to 35mm.
Argall and the cast rehearsed for four weeks prior to filming.Scott Murray, "Ray Argall: Return Home", Cinema Papers, March 1990 p26-32 He said he worked on the script for seven years prior to the shoot.[http://www.signis.net/malone/tiki-index.php?page=Ray+Argall&bl "Interview with Ray Argall", Signet, 13 March 1998] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130222155408/http://www.signis.net/malone/tiki-index.php?page=Ray+Argall&bl |date=22 February 2013 }} Retrieved 17 November 2012
Box office
Return Home grossed $236,252 at the box office in Australia.[http://film.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/AA4_Aust_Box_office_report.pdf Film Victoria - Australian Films at the Australian Box Office]
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |editor-last=Murray |editor-first=Scott |title=Australian Cinema |publisher= Allen & Unwin/AFC |location= St.Leonards, NSW. |year=1994 |page=289 |isbn= 1-86373-311-6 }}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0100479|title=Return Home}}
- Return Home at the [http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/return-home/ Australian screen]
- [http://www.ozmovies.com.au/movie/return-home Return Home] at Oz Movies
- [http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=6045 DVD review]
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Category:Films shot in Adelaide
Category:Australian drama films
Category:Films shot in Melbourne
Category:1990s English-language films
Category:1990s Australian films
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