Third Person Plural

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| director = James Ricketson

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| writer = James Ricketson

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| starring = Bryan Brown
Martha Ansara

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| released = {{Film date|1978}}

| runtime = 92 minutes

| country = Australia

| language = English

| budget = AU$30,000[http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/about_us/new_directions/DPG/DPG_documents/JamesRicketson_comment.pdf Comment by James Ricketson on Screen Australia draft program guidelines November 2008]. Retrieved 11 October 2012

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Third Person Plural is a 1978 film directed by James Ricketson and starring Bryan Brown.David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p136

The script was devised by the actors and director in a workshop.Robin Anderson, "Third Person Plural", Australian Film 1978-92, Oxford Uni Press 1993 p24 Cinematographer Martha Ansara also appears in the film.{{cite web | title=Principal credits Third Person Plural (1978) | website=Australian Screen Online | url=https://aso.gov.au/titles/features/third-person-plural/credits/ | access-date=15 February 2025}}

Ricketson has since called the film an "experiment":

I just wanted to see whether it would be possible to make a film on that small budget, shoot the whole thing with a hand-held camera, integrate improvised dialogue with scripted dialogue, work with a small core of actors on a character-based piece, which is what I did, and then to approach the editing of the film in an innovative way. Now, I happen not to like the film myself. Having done the film - it was fun to do it - I decided that I didn't like it, and it certainly wasn't the direction that I wanted to go in.[https://archive.today/20130112141049/http://www.signis.net/malone/tiki-index.php?page=James+Ricketson&bl Interview with James Ricketson, 22 May 1995]. Retrieved 20 October 2012