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The Best of Friends (film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Best of Friends' is a 1982 Australian romantic comedy about two best friends who have an affair one night, resulting in the woman becoming pregnant.
Production
The script won $10,000 in a competition by the New South Wales Film Corporation for best original quality.David Stratton, 'The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p109 Neville Wran presented the writer and director with the cheque.
Angela Punch McGregor later claimed that:
It was an excellent script. It was then mutilated by all of us. [Writer] Donald McDonald was very upset about it. The film was badly handled and I was miscast but I took it because I wanted the challenge of doing a comedy, which I hadn't done before. I thought my role was well written and wasn't cardboard... The director wasn't up to it, the film was miscast, the budget wasn't good.Jim Schembri, "Angela Punch McGregor", 'Cinema Papers', December 1984 p 421
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