As Time Goes By (1988 film)

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As Time Goes By
Film poster
Directed byBarry Peak
Written byBarry Peak
Produced byChris Kiely
StarringMax Gillies
Bruno Lawrence
Nique Needles
CinematographyJohn Ogden
Edited byRalph Strasser
Music byPeter Sullivan
Release date
1988
Running time
96 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Box officeAU $5,854[1]

As Time Goes By (originally titled The Cricketer) is a 1988 Australian science fiction comedy film directed by Barry Peak and starring Max Gillies, Bruno Lawrence, and Nique Needles. A few bars of the title song (extracted from the film Casablanca) are heard in the Australian version of the film but not in overseas prints, because of its high cost.[2]

Plot synopsis

Mike, a surfer from

Manhattan project-era Los Alamos
. On the way he encounters Ryder, once a famous cricketer but now a small-town policeman, on the trail of a murderous motorcyclist and his sidecar-riding sidekick — accomplices of Weston, a land-grabbing weather watcher who believes the desert is about to become valuable pasture, and who develops a temporary alliance with McCauley, a UFO hunter who will stop at nothing in his quest for fame and fortune.

It is the surfer's pre-ordained purpose to recover the spaceship's power module, which had been lost overboard, but is frustrated in his quest by Cheryl, a ditzy fellow-hitchhiker, who fancies it as a hat (it is disguised as a "King Beer" emblem) and the UFO hunter, who believes he can discover something by prising it open. He is assisted by Connie, Ryder's beautiful

Mini-moke
-driving daughter and love interest. Other characters include a weathered old bone collector, who hauls his "finds" in an ancient hand-cart, and Dingo's town storekeeper, involved in a never-ending fight against dust in his shop.

Cast


Accolades

Nique Needles won Best Actor in A Science Fiction Film (billed as L'Australieno) at the 1988 Fantafestival.

Tony Harrison called the film "bizarre and entertaining".[3]

Home media

The film was released to VHS but not DVD.

References

  1. ^ "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 24 October 2009
  2. ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p 282–283
  3. ISBN 0731804554
    .

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