Stan and Georges New Life
6.8 /10 1 Votes6.8
Director Brian McKenzie Duration Producer Margot McDonald Country Australia | 6.7/10 Genre Drama Music director Michael Atkinson Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast (Stanley Harris), Julie Forsyth (George), John Bluthal (Stan Senior), Margaret Ford (Sheila Harris), Roy Baldwin (Thomas Sterns), Bruce Alexander (Geoffrey)Release date 1992 Writer Deborah Cox, Brian McKenzie Screenplay Deborah Cox, Brian McKenzie Similar movies Sweet Talker (1991), Almost (1990), Dead Letter Office (1998), Return Home (1990), The Legend Maker (2014) Tagline A sunny love story in an overcast world |
Stan and George's New Life is a 1992 Australian film.

Brian McKenzie said he thought the resulting movie was good but it was not a strong story.
We tried very hard to make something out of it. I think it's a matter of having some sort of belief in your particular, not so much style, but presentation. It isn't so theatrical, and that runs through the performances, the editing style and the more classic sort of shots, style and the cast. So, in the end, if you can manage to imbue all the various parts with something that's fairly consistent, it can't be divided up or contaminated or corrupted. It's a complete thing. That's where I think that film has its worth. The script really lets the film down in the second half. It divides into two films, following a conspiracy thing. It doesn't really work. The focus on the odd couple in a workplace was working really well up until that point. Then the two elements fight each other for the rest of the film. Because of the delicate sort of storytelling and because it's slow, whatever action there is is really only in the climax. It doesn't particularly drive you along. It falls apart, I think, in the second half.
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