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Skin Deep (1985 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Skin Deep' is a 1985 Australian television film directed by Chris Langman and Mark Joffe and featuring an early screen appearance by Nicole Kidman. Set in the fashion industry, it was one of the few Australian films to be set in this milieu and was an attempt to do an Australian 'Dallas' or 'Dynasty'.Ed. Scott Murray, 'Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p143[http://petermalone.misacor.org.au/tiki-index.php?page=Skin+Deep 'Skin Deep'] at Peter Malone
Plot
Barbara Kennedy is a successful business woman in the fashion and modelling industry. In the lead up to a fashion designers awards night, her boyfriend Cliff proposes to her. But then she realises that one of her own models is her illegitimate daughter, given up for adoption years earlier. She has a bitchy rival Vanessa. And a murderer is loose.
Cast
*Briony Behets - Barbara
*Carmen Duncan - Vanessa
*James Smillie - Cliff
*David Reyne - Grant
*Antoinette Byron - Christina
*John O'May - Roger
*Kate Fitzpatrick - Maggie
References
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