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Cool Change (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Cool Change' is a 1986 Australian action film directed by George T. Miller. It stars Jon Blake and Lisa Armytage.David Stratton, 'The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p224
Plot
A park ranger is caught in a conflict between farmers and conservationists.
Cast
*Jon Blake as Steve
*Lisa Armytage as Joanna
*Deborra-Lee Furness as Lee
*David Bradshaw as James Hardwicke
*Alec Wilson as Bull Raddick
Production
The film was shot on location in Mansfield and the Victorian Alps.Greg Kerr, "Cool Change", 'Australian Film 19781992', Oxford Uni Press 1993 p187
Critical reception
The critic from the 'Sydney Morning Herald' called the movie "a spectacularly simplistic propaganda piece for the cattle farmers of the Victorian high plains".[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19860417&id=xrcyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eOgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2603,651772 "Son of Snowy"], 'Sydney Morning Herald' 17 April 1986. accessed 10 May 2013
Box office
' Cool Change' grossed $60,868 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $132,692 in 2009 dollars.
References
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