Australian/New Zealand movies: 1986

The biggest year so far in regards to movies with nudity/something sexy to cap with about 30 movies including some movies with a lot of sex/nudity (see Coming of Age and Beyond Innocence). Also features the most popular Australian movie of all time in Crocodile Dundee plus a fair number of oddities and barely seen movies.

1986

Army Wives
aka When Duty Calls

Telemovie about the experiences of two friends (Julie Nihill and Lian Lunson) who get married to a couple of diametrically opposed brothers who are both in the army. Turns out neither of them handle life with a mostly absent husband all that well and while there's a few decent points made about army life, the movie gets utterly ridiculous and it's silliness overpowers any good points made.

There's a sex scene where Lian Lunson shows her breasts.

You can find a synopsis with videos from Army Wives here. A preview is below.

Lian Lunson in Army Wives

   
   
   

 

 

Backlash

Improvised drama about two cops, rookie Nikki (Gia Carides) and sidelined 10-year veteran Trevor (David Argue) who are charged with bringing in an Indigenous woman Kath (Lydia Miller) who is accused of the brutal murder of her barman boss. But they get lost taking an outback shortcut and barely survive the experience and only do thanks to Kath's local knowledge. During their time 'lost', they get to know one another and and the cops start to believe that Kath may be innocent. When they get back to civilisation, the cops attempt to help Kath get off the charge but things don't go as expected. Director Bill Bennett really took advantage of 10BA with 6 movies in 5 years, mostly very low budget stuff and while this movie has it's limitations, particularly a slow pace, there's enough going on here to make it an interesting movie.

There's no real nudity in Backlash although there's some brief side-boob from Lydia Miller and Gia Carides looks great in a bra. You can find videos from Backlash here.

 

 

Beyond Innocence
aka Devil in the Flesh

Soft-core eroticism based on the notorious novel 'Le Diable au Corps' where Paul (Keith Smith) sees the daughter of an old family friend, Marthe (French/English actress Katia Caballero) and instantly falls for her. But, there's two problems. He's a school boy and she's a married Italian woman awaiting the release of her husband Ermanno from a prison camp. They begin an affair then Marthe becomes pregnant and with her husband about to come home, they struggle to keep their relationship together. Typical young person falls for older person movie, nothing you haven't seen a thousand times before.

Plenty of nudity from both Katia Caballero and Louise Elvin.

You can find a synopsis with collages and VHS videos from Beyond Innocence here. A preview is below.

Katia Caballero in Beyond Innocence

   
   
   
   
   
   

 

Louise Elvin in Beyond Innocence

   
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

The Big Hurt

Loopy Melbourne-set noir thriller where crusading journalist Price (David Bradshaw) is released from prison for not giving up a source and is put back on the crime beat and his first story gets weird fast. It looks a lot like a murder of a sex worker but when he gets home Price finds a woman, Lisa Alexander (Lian Lunson) has broken in waiting for him and spins a tale about a kink club run by ASIO (Australia's version of the CIA) that has a back room that does highly illegal experiments on women. Price thinks it's nonsense but checks it out and the more he digs, the more he starts to believe Lisa. Very plot heavy and completely bonkers but strangely interesting as more is unveiled.

More nudity from Lian Lunson (see also Army Wives above) plus a whole number of other actresses including Julie Jones, Yvonne Braumann, Brenda Knowles, Anna Knappe, Elizabeth Archer as well as plenty of unknown women.

You can find a synopsis with collages and VHS videos from The Big Hurt here. A preview is below.

Lian Lunson in The Big Hurt

   

 

Julie Jones in The Big Hurt

   

 

Yvonne Braumann in The Big Hurt

   
   

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Various Unknowns in The Big Hurt

   
   
   
   

 

 

Bridge to Nowhere (NZ)

Backwoods thriller where a group of teens go for a weekend away camping and pass a farm run by a middle-aged man (Bruno Lawrence) who lives with his much younger wife (Alison Routledge). Things become tense between the groups when one of the teen boys tries to kill the man's bull which results in him breaking their gun. Then one of the teen boys goes too far with his girlfriend as they are making out and he storms off coming across the farmhouse where he spies the two having sex. When confronted, the boy pulls a gun on the man and in the commotion, the boy is killed by the man. The man then comes for the rest of the teens who with no food or water decide the only way out is to get out is to get past the psycho with a gun. Underdone thriller where the psycho doesn't really want to kill the teens and the teens go to seed so fast it's a miracle they survive. Lacks tension and never really fires.

Some nudity from Alison Routledge (albeit very dark), Margaret Umbers and Shelley Luxford.

You can find a synopsis with videos from Bridge To Nowhere here. A preview is below.

Alison Routledge in Bridge to Nowhere

   
   

 

Margaret Umbers in Bridge to Nowhere

   

 

Shelley Luxford in Bridge to Nowhere

   
   

 

 

Cactus

Paul Cox's annual movie this time importing French actress Isabelle Huppert who plays a woman who is semi-blinded in car accident and must decide whether she wants to lose an eye so that her other eye can be saved. She also meets a blind man Robert (Robert Menzies) who works with cacti and they fall in love which helps her with the decision of what to do about the surgery. Fairly sedate movie even for Paul Cox with not a lot to recommend, not even the appearance of Isabelle Huppert in an Australian movie.

Some brief nudity from Isabelle Huppert who shows her breasts and bottom.

You can find a synopsis with videos from Cactus here. A preview is below.

Isabelle Huppert in Cactus

   

 

 

Coming of Age

Sex comedy about a confused nun Angel (Angela Menzies-Wills) who falls for sexually-explicit rock star Rexx Rated (David Evans) and they get married. Rexx gives up the raunchy act and turns religious for her but they are not clicking in the bedroom. Angel goes on a journey of self-discovery where she attempts to find her sexuality, coming across a number of men who all want her in their own ways. She is then told to see a well-regarded sex therapist before being invited  to visit a mysterious man for a night she'll never forget. Completely rubbish movie inspired by 70s British sex comedies but is absolutely unfunny and most of the sexy stuff is repetitive and laborious. About the only thing going for it is the massive amount of nudity and a catchy theme song.

A lot of nudity from Angela Menzies-Wills who'd previously only had small sexpot roles in Australian movies. There's also further nudity from a number of actresses including Deanna Somers, Margaret Dupre, Angela Rowland, someone named Nadine and a number of women throughout the movie.

You can find a synopsis with collages and VHS videos from Coming of Age here. A preview is below.

Angela Menzies-Wills in Coming of Age

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

Angela Menzies-Wills and Deanna Somers in Coming of Age

   
   
   
   
   

 

Margaret Dupre in Coming of Age

   
   
   

 

Deanna Somers in Coming of Age

   
   
   
   
   

 

Angie Rowland in Coming of Age

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

Nadine in Coming of Age

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

Various Women in Coming of Age

   
   
   

 

 

Cool Change

Drama set in the battle between environmentalists and ranchers when it is ruled that cattle can't be mustered in the newly announced national park. The environment minister sends his assistant Lee (Deborra-Lee Furness) to check out what's going on in the national park with local ranger Steve (Jon Blake), who'd rather do anything but work for his rancher father. Also around is Steve's old flame Joanna (Lisa Armytage) who's property is determined to be in the national park. Steve and Joanna rekindle the flame as she struggles to run her farm. Steve reluctantly get his father's help while Lee's boss is determined to shut Joanna down and will do anything to make it happen. Silly Australian western that's more of a soppy melodrama with a real moustache twirling bad guy. Directed by the other George Miller of The Man From Snowy River fame and this movie 'borrows heavily' from that better movie.

Some brief nudity from Deborra-Lee Furness as she goes for a skinnydip.

You can find a synopsis with VHS videos from Cool Change here. A preview is below.

Deborra-Lee Furness in Cool Change

   
   

 

 

Crocodile Dundee

Probably the most well-known Australian movie ever, still the highest grossing (by a long way). Pretty simple fish-out-of-water tale about an American journalist Sue (Linda Kozlowski) who comes to Australia looking for a story and comes across Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee (Paul Hogan) who after getting off on the wrong foot decides to bring him to see the big city for the first time, her home town of New York. While there, Mick discovers a whole new jungle and he and Sue fall for one another. Just a simple story told incredibly well with some good laughs along the way. Not hard-to-see why it was a big hit.

No nudity in the movie but has Linda Kozlowski in a very famous one piece G-string bathing suit scene. So famous it was replicated in the sub-par biopic mini-series about Paul Hogan's life.

Linda Kozlowski in Crocodile Dundee

   
   
   

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Dangerous Orphans (NZ)

Crime thriller where three orphan boys stick together into adulthood where they perform daring heists while they attempt to get revenge for the murder of one of the boy's father. Also one of the boys falls for the ex-wife (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) of the man they are after. By-the-numbers violent thriller that has a few moments but you've seen it all before.

No real nudity in the movie but some sexy stuff from Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Stephanie Ash. Sadly the best I can do with the videos is a Russian overdub so you'll hear that in some of the videos.

Jennifer Ward-Lealand in Dangerous Orphans

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Stephanie Ash in Dangerous Orphans

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Dead-End Drive-In

Another high concept Brian Trenchard-Smith movie, this time a post-apocalyptic thriller where Crabs (Ned Manning) takes his date Carmen (Natalie McCurry) to the drive-in theatre and ends up getting locked-in with the rest of the miscreants and unwanted Asian immigrants. Crabs makes a number of desperate attempts to get out of the place while Carmen seems at home in the makeshift detention centre. Silly idea that at the very least is better conceived than the other related Trenchard-Smith movie Turkey Shoot and ends up being more interesting than it has any right to being. Has some great stunts but also a crude sub-plot involving Asian immigrants which really belongs in a much more serious movie.

Natalie McCurry shows her breasts and bottom in a sex scene in a car. Also some further nudity from unknown actresses.

You can find a synopsis with collages and HD videos from Dead-End Drive-In here. A preview is below.

Natalie McCurry in Dead-End Drive-In

   
   

 

Unknown in Dead-End Drive-In

   

 

 

Death of a Soldier

Nutty Philippe Mora comes back to Australia after making a few movies overseas (Howling II, A Breed Apart) to make this oddball mystery movie about a serial killer who is murdering women in Melbourne in 1942 when American soldiers were spending time resting from the war in the Pacific. Local cops begin to think that one of the American soldiers is the serial killer and a major (James Coburn) takes an interest. Turns out it's a hulking American private (Reb Brown) who is harassing women around town and then he kills a policeman's wife which results in all hell breaking loose between the locals and the American soldiers including an incredibly full-on massacre in a train carriage. When he is finally caught, everyone wants a quick trial, verdict then hanging but the Major insists on a fair trial where he's deemed insane which pisses off pretty much everyone. Surprisingly watchable mystery with some very odd moments no more so than the hulking private singing like a little girl. Also helped by good performances by James Coburn and Bill Hunter as one of the cops.

Some nudity from Mary Charleston as a murder victim, Kathy Gordon and Brenda Knowles as a stripper as well as some unknown women throughout the movie.

You can find a synopsis with videos from Death of a Soldier here. A preview is below.

Mary Charleston in Death of a Soldier

   

 

Kathy Gordon in Death of a Soldier

 

Brenda Knowles in Death of a Soldier

   
   

 

Unknowns in Death of a Soldier

   
   

 

 

Departure

Very obscure drama (so much so it has no description on IMDB) about the Swift family whose patriarch Presley (Michael Duffield) is a veteran politician who is thinking about retiring with his wife overseas. His son Simon (Serge Lazareff) comes back to town to take his father's safe seat but then a journalist gets notice of a long forgotten incident involving the death of a sex worker when Presley and his mates were at a brothel that threatens to ruin both his reputation and his son's chance at parliament. Staid drama that feels like a filmed play and never really reaches any heights and has a fairly unknown cast. Not hard to see why this is pretty much unseen. Thankfully the director (who also directed the terrible Double Deal) put the movie up on Vimeo otherwise I doubt it would've seen the light of day.

Some brief nudity from stunt woman Robyn Menzies as the sex worker who dies mysteriously.

Robyn Menzies in Departure

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Dogs in Space

Cult slice-of-life drama set over a few days at a share house in Richmond that resembles more of a zoo atmosphere. Two bandmates of the band Dogs in Space, Sam (INXS frontman Michael Hutchence) and Tim (Nique Needles) are eagerly awaiting a gig while Sam spends time with his live-in girlfriend Anne (Saskia Post). An unnamed girl (Deanna Bond) makes herself known in the house while various other people interact in the house while everything stops at 6pm Sunday for the latest episode of Countdown. I despised this movie when I watched it 15 years ago, an anarchic mess that I didn't find the least bit interesting but maybe I'll soften my view with another look in the future. Get the feeling you really had to be there.

A couple of brief scenes where Saskia Post shows her breasts while Caroline Lee shows her breasts in another scene.

You can find a synopsis with collages and HD videos from Dogs in Space here. A preview is below.

Saskia Post in Dogs in Space

   
   

 

Caroline Lee in Dogs in Space

   

 

 

Emma's War

Haha... No idea what this is about. All I know is that it's Miranda Otto's first movie plus it stars American actress Lee Remick. First movie that's absolutely stumped me not helped by not writing about it when I capped the movie.

Miranda briefly shows her bottom and some side-boob in a shower scene where other young women are naked.

You can find videos from Emma's War here. A preview is below.

Miranda Otto in Emma's War

   
   

 

 

Fair Game

Exploitation revenge thriller set in rural South Australia where Jessica (Cassandra Delaney) lives by herself running an animal sanctuary when she comes across some randy kangaroo hunters who set their sights on her. After a bit of to-and-fro an incident causes the hunters to attack and ravage Jessica. She decides to fight back and take revenge on her tormentors. Surprisingly decent attempt at the rape revenge thriller that has a rather unique way to display the rape scene that still manages to be rather exploitative. Quite tense at times too.

Cassandra Delaney shows her breasts and bottom in various scenes throughout the movie including the infamous strapped to the car 'rape' scene.

You can find a synopsis with collages and HD videos from Fair Game here. A preview is below.

Cassandra Delaney in Fair Game

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

Hopefully the next update will be up on the weekend with another 14/15 movies from 1986 but there's a bit of work to do as I haven't yet capped at least 6 of these movies.

Had a bit to cap for this update with new videos from 7 of the 15 movies featured in the this update. A wide selection as always including some really obscure stuff plus the debut nude scenes from Nicole Kidman.

 

For Love Alone

Romantic drama set pre-World War II where 'ugly duckling' Teresa (Helen Buday) is struggling to attract men mainly because she had no interest in them until she meets a professor Johnathan (Hugo Weaving) who she falls madly for until they go to England and then she meets a banker James (Sam Neill) and she doesn't seem all that interested in Johnathan any more. Fairly typical romantic drama that's a bit dreary and feels very weird every time anyone talks about Teresa as the odd-one-out compared to her sister which is quite a lot. Strange that a movie starring Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill is pretty much forgotten even one that isn't all that memorable.

The movie is rated PG but there's a couple of scenes where Helen Buday briefly shows her breasts. She has much more extensive nudity in Rolf de Heer's 2003 psychosexual thriller Alexandra's Project. Helen's (on debut here) appeared in so few movies/TV and seems to be more of a stage actress. Also a brief video of Naomi Watts in a bathing suit in a very early role for her - I think Beyond Innocence might be her debut movie. It's also her entire role in this movie.

Helen Buday in For Love Alone

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Naomi Watts in For Love Alone

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The Fringe Dwellers

Indigenous coming-of-age story where teenage Trilby (Kristina Nehm) is desperate to be accepted in the broader society but is thwarted by her family's reluctance for something better and the general racism of the locals. She finally convinces her father (Bob Maza) to get off his arse and get a job so that they can leave their place on the fringe of town with her fellow Indigenous people and rent a new commission house in town. But it becomes a struggle, particularly for her mother (Justine Saunders) and not helped by her father's habits. Trilby also meets a young man Phil (Ernie Dingo) who she falls for and may be respectable enough for her to leave town. Then she becomes pregnant and everything is put on hold. Not bad movie directed by Bruce Beresford back from directing a couple of movies overseas (Tender Mercies, King David) that takes a rare look at the issues a young Indigenous person has and is mostly interesting until Trilby's pregnancy is literally sprung on the audience out-of-nowhere. The movie then takes a dark turn which is quite shocking and probably makes the audience take a 180 degree turn on Trilby. Very odd ending.

Some brief nudity from Kristina Nehm.

Kristina Nehm in The Fringe Dwellers

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Michelle Torres in The Fringe Dwellers

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Going Sane

Comedy about mining executive Martin (John Waters) who's going through a mid-life crisis and he doesn't love his wife Ainslee (Judy Morris). He decides to indulge in an affair with his secretary Irene (Linda Cropper) where he rubs it in his wife's face by locking his wife out while he fucks Irene. He then locks himself in his office and only leaves when Irene convinces him to run away to the country with him. But it goes badly and he's found barely alive and sent to a mental institution where he meets Nosh (Kate Raison) and they run away to a commune together and he finds out the damage his work is doing to the world. Wacky comedy that isn't funny and has an obvious plot where you just know he'll find meaning by doing the exact opposite of what he was doing. Bliss did this story far better/funnier.

Annie Semler shows her breasts as she attempts to seduce John Waters' character.

You can find a synopsis with collages and VHS videos from Going Sane here. A preview is below.

Annie Semler in Going Sane

   
   
   

 

 

Jenny Kissed Me

Another Brian Trenchard-Smith movie for 1986 (he also directed Dead End Drive-In and Frog Dreaming), this time a domestic drama where Lindsay (Ivar Kants) lives in the country with Carol (Deborra-Lee Furness) and her daughter Jenny (Tamsin West), who adores her stepfather and he adores her back. On the other hand, Carol is lukewarm to her daughter and this all comes to a head on a stormy night when Carol goes next door to get help from next door neighbour Mal (Steven Grives) and ends up having sex with him while Lindsay comes back and finds Carol out and they argue and she accuses him of being 'too close' to Jenny. Carol leaves with the reluctant Jenny and hides out at her friends place in the city while Lindsay goes looking for them. Not the usual Trenchard-Smith movie but no less ridiculous than his movies usually are. None of the plot seems plausible and the movie is in desperate need of restraint, something you'll never get from Trenchard-Smith. Lindsay, who is not even Jenny's father, is way too into her but not in the way the movie seems to suggest which becomes very odd. Having said that, Tamsin West is a real stand-out in this movie as Jenny, one of the best child actor performances I've ever seen.

Deborra-Lee Furness is nude in a couple of scene including a fairly lengthy one. Shame about the quality of the videos.

You can find a synopsis with VHS videos from Jenny Kissed Me here. A preview is below.

Deborra-Lee Furness in Jenny Kissed Me

   
   
   
   

 

 

Just Us

Based-on-a-true-story telemovie where young journalist Jessica (Catherine McClements) goes to prison to write a story for her newspaper and comes across long-term prisoner Billy Carter (Scott Burgess). She becomes interested in his story and after he opens up to her, they fall in love. Jessica then goes about helping Billy get out of prison while attempting to get married outside of the prison. OK drama, a very early role from McClements who was a hot prospect just out of NIDA. Goes along quite well until the need to have a jumping off point which happens way too quickly. This is a real obscure movie that only became available thanks to some random YouTube account who only put it up to show the sights of Melbourne in the 80s. Big thanks to them otherwise this would've been lost to time as the collectors don't seem to have this movie.

Some brief nudity from Catherine McClements plus a bathing suit scene where she's joined by a young Gina Riley (Kath & Kim).

Catherine McClements in Just Us

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Malcolm

Classic Australian comedy about an autistic young man Malcolm (Colin Friels) who has a gift for making mechanical things. He is fired from his job at the tram depot and is in desperate need for money so he takes in a boarder, a recently released prisoner Frank (John Hargreaves) who brings in his girlfriend Judith (Lindy Davies). Malcolm struggles to fit in with the two until he gets an interest in using his skills to help Frank commit robberies. Judith isn't happy with this development but then joins them as they plan one big heist without even stepping into the building. Fun movie with great gadget scenes and the final robbery is a real hoot. First of the Nadia Tass/David Parker comedies and possibly their best (I'd go with The Big Steal).

Some brief nudity from Lindy Davies.

You can find a synopsis with HD videos from Malcolm here. A preview is below.

Lindy Davies in Malcolm

   
   

 

 

Mark II (NZ)

Comedy/drama about three young Maori men Eddie (Nicholas Rogers), Kingi (Mitchell Manuel) and Matthew (Faifua Amiga) who go on a road trip from Auckland to Wellington in a old Mark II Zephyr. They have a little fun along the way but are also chased by gangsters who are after Kingi to pay back the money for the drugs her took from them. OK movie which mixes the comedy and drama with the harsh realities of being a Maori quite well.

No real nudity in Mark II but there's an implied nude scene from Joanna Briant.

Joanna Briant in Mark II

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The More Things Change...

Change-of-life drama where workaholic Connie (Judy Morris), her husband Lex (Barry Otto) and young son move out of the city and take up residence on a small farm. Connie commutes to the city and takes pity on Geraldine (Victoria Longley) when she comes in for a job and she admits that she's needs the job because she's pregnant and alone. So Connie hires Geraldine as a live-in nanny. We then see as Connie struggles with the change, Geraldine attempts to reunite with her ex Barry (Lewis Fitz-Gerald) and Lex enjoying himself way too much as a hobby farmer. One and only movie directed by actress Robyn Nevin (see Libido), by-the-numbers drama where we see a do-it-all woman struggle with everything as everyone else seems to be doing fine. A stock-standard role for Judy Morris who's become very typecast. Feels wild when she gets slaughtered early on in Razorback, something different.

Possible nudity from Judy Morris from a distance as she flashes Barry Otto after rounding up some cattle. Strangely the Umbrella DVD is cut, very odd mistake from them.

Judy Morris in The More Things Change...

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Pallet On The Floor (NZ)

Wild crime drama where local factory worker Sam (Peter McCauley) gets married to a Maori woman Sue (Jillian O'Brien), who is pregnant with his child, much to the chagrin of her former lover Jack (John Bach) who harasses her at their wedding. After Sam and his friends Basil (Bruce Spence) and O'Keefe (Terence Cooper) are fired from the factory, they spend their time drinking at the pub. That is when barmaid Miriam (Shirley Gruar) gives Sam the notion the kid isn't his. Sam and Sue argue about it but it's his kid and they make up. The next night as Sam and friends are at the pub, Jack makes his move on Sue and attempts to rape her but Sam's friends come past and beat Jack to death (accidentally) before Basil gets the bright idea to drive dead Jack and his car into the oncoming train. Job done except Jack's psycho brother Joe (Marshall Napier) isn't convinced and comes after them all. OK drama that strangely plays it straight when it probably would've worked better if it was a black comedy particularly when Basil is on the screen with another of his crazy schemes. Bruce Spence is so good here and he even sells that ridiculous ending.

Jillian O'Brien is nude in a few scenes throughout the movie.

You can find a synopsis with videos from Pallet on the Floor here. A preview is below.

Jillian O'Brien in Pallet on the Floor

   
   
   
   

 

 

Playing Beatie Bow

Family drama about teenage girl Abigail Kirk (Imogen Annesley) who is struggling to deal with her parent's problems. She watches her younger sister play a game called Beatie Bow named after a mysterious girl (Mouche Phillips) who watches on. One day Abigail follows Beatie and ends up back in 1873 with no way of getting back. Turns out Beatie's grandmother has the power of healing and to see into the future although these powers have been waning and it has been foretold that 'The Stranger' will come and improve those powers. Meanwhile, Beatie's sister Dovey (Nikki Coghill) is to be married to Judah (Peter Phelps), but after Judah saves Abigail from sex traffickers, she falls for him, jeopardising everyone's future. Oddball family movie that's a little less kid friendly than the usual family movie particularly the stuff involving sex traffickers/a brothel. It is a fairly watchable movie though and Imogen Annesley is pretty good in the lead. Based on a book every one had to read as a kid.

No real nudity in the movie but there's a shower scene where in the fullscreen version you can see Imogen Annesley wearing a strapless bra.

You can find a synopsis with collages and HD and fullscreen videos from Playing Beatie Bow here. A preview is below.

Imogen Annesley in Playing Beatie Bow

   
   

 

 

Shark's Paradise

Miami Vice on the Gold Coast! Awful telemovie about a rogue, off-the-books gang of cops Rod (David Reyne), Billie (Sally Tayler) and American Monty (Ronnie Becks) who are brought together to chase down a madman who has the ability to control sharks (?!) and after showing what he can do is threatening to set them on the Surfers Paradise public just as the tourist season has begun if they don't get $2 million. A failed pilot and huge rip-off of Miami Vice but with absolutely no cool, just bozos going from one silly scene to the next. I haven't even seen Miami Vice and I can tell it's a pale imitation. Just has absolutely nothing going for it.

No nudity but some sexy stuff from sexpot Lynda Stoner, Tracey Tainsh (who has brief nudity in next year's Frenchman's Farm also starring David Reyne) and Tracey Reid.

Lynda Stoner in Shark's Paradise

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Tracey Tainsh in Shark's Paradise

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Tracey Reid in Shark's Paradise

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A Single Life

Drama where 30-something Billie (Tina Bursill) decides she wants a baby but her current boyfriend and flings aren't cutting it also she may not be fertile. She begins an affair with her new boss Richard (Steve Jacobs) which seems to be going well then Billie gets pregnant and then she avoids Richard like he has the plague. Turns out Richard left his wife Margaret (Pamela Rabe) for Billie but she's gone so he sells his business and become a boatbuilder. One day he spots Billie and he still wants to be with her. Then he finds out he's a father but she won't let him see the baby. Absolutely silly drama where the lead character is so unlikeable and makes completely baffling decisions that it's incredibly hard to warm to her or the movie. Even the one reasonable character Richard goes off the boil by the end. No! Tina Bursill and Steve Jacobs will try again with remarkably similar characters in next year's Jilted.

Some brief nudity from Tina Bursill.

You can find a synopsis with VHS videos from A Single Life here. A preview is below.

Tina Bursill in A Single Life

   
   

 

 

The Surfer

Queensland-based noir thriller where surfer Sam Barlow (Gary Day) become the unwitting witness of his friend being murdered by a couple of Vietnamese men. Sam now wants to find out why this happened for the sake of his friend's wife (Kris McQuade). He finds the woman that sparked the events, Gina (Gosia Dobrowolska) and falls for her but a casino owner Hagan (Rod Mullinar) wants them both dead and sends a corrupt cop which ends badly for the cop which makes Hagan send more men after them. Interesting movie that builds the suspense nicely then gets bogged down by too much plot and gets a little ridiculous by the end.

There's a new Australian movie starring Nicolas Cage with this exact title. Wonder if it's a remake...

A few nude scenes featuring Gosia Dobrowolska.

You can find a synopsis with collages and VHS videos from The Surfer here. A preview is below.

Gosia Dobrowolska in The Surfer

   
   
   
   

 

 

Windrider

Western Australia set comedy/drama about an up-and-coming windsurfer/engineering upstart P.C. (Tom Burlinson) who completes a 360° turn which is spotted by Jade (Nicole Kidman) who he finds out is the lead singer of a local band and tries to ask her out on a date but she is reluctant until she isn't. When he starts going out with Jade, P.C. starts having problems including being attacked by a shark and begins to lose his nerve which sucks as the big competition is fast approaching. Silly movie that struggles mixing the comedy and drama and mostly fails at both.

Debut nudity for Nicole Kidman in a number of scenes plus there's more in an extended scene off the DVD.

You can find a synopsis with collages and HD videos from Windrider here. A preview is below.

Nicole Kidman in Windrider

   
   
   
   
   

 

There's quite a lot of movies with nothing to cap including political thriller The Humpty Dumpty Man, Jane Campion's debut movie 2 Friends, Indiana Jones rip-off Sky Pirates, rowing drama Double Sculls, heist thriller Call Me Mr. Brown, no budget video shot revenge thriller Marauders, D.H. Lawrence adaptation Kangaroo, Indigenous drama Short Changed, teen girl drama debut movie for Nadine Garner The Still Point, filmed Shakespeare play Twelfth Night, short drama Feathers, one woman drama My Life Without Steve, Sam Elliott starring telemovie The Blue Lightning and race politics swapping comedy short BabaKiueria. There's also the family movies Archer about the horse who won the first two Melbourne Cup races, the 3rd Brian Trenchard-Smith movie of the year Frog Dreaming and kids' movies Hector's Bunyip and The Last Warhorse. Plus a couple of animated movies Dot and the Whale and the New Zealand comic adaptation Footrot Flats.

And let's not forget there's nothing in the New Zealand teen drama Queen City Rocker and it unknown if there's anything to cap in Arriving Tuesday although there's a bathtub scene featuring Judy McIntosh where you don't really see anything. Not sure about the rest of the movie.

1987 is going to be another big one, possibly even more movies than 1986 but I've still got over 20 movies to look at so it's going to be a real struggle to get the updates out as usual. We'll see.

 

Tags: Linda Kozlowski, Robyn Menzies, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Stephanie Ash, Helen Buday, Naomi Watts, Kristina Nehm, Michelle Torres, Catherine McClements, Gina Riley, Joanna Briant, Judy Morris, Lynda Stoner, Tracey Tainsh, Tracey Reid