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Director
  
Music director
  
Paul Smyth

Duration
  

Country
  
Australia

7.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Sport

Screenplay
  
Trevor Farrant

Writer
  
Trevor Farrant

Language
  
English

Struck by Lightning (1990 film) movie poster

Release date
  
11 October 1990 (1990-10-11)

Initial release
  
October 11, 1990 (Australia)

Cast
  
(Ollie Rennie), (Pat Cannizzaro), (Jill McHugh),
Henry Salter
(Noel),
Denis Moore
(Foster),
Briony Williams
(Gail)

Similar movies
  
Return Home (1990), Winter of Our Dreams (1981), Strikebound (1984), Floating Life (1996), Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1987)

Struck by Lightning is a 1990 Australian film directed by Jerzy Domaradzki. The film was nominated in 4 AFI Award categories, including Best Director and Best Film. It won the film award at the Human Rights Medal and Awards in 1990.

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Plot summary

Garry McDonald plays Ollie, a grumpy alcoholic workshop supervisor at a shelter called Saltmarsh. He hires Pat (Brian Vriends), a school teacher, to develop an experimental fitness program for the intellectually disabled young adults in the shelter. Pat teaches P.E and decides to try to get them involved in soccer, with some interesting results. Jill is Ollie's social worker, who Ollie calls 'the bitch'.

Cast

  • Garry McDonald as Ollie Rennie
  • Brian Vriends as Pat Cannizzaro
  • Catherine McClements as Jill McHugh
  • Henry Salter as Noel
  • Denis Moore as Foster
  • Briony Williams as Gail
  • Syd Brisbane as Spencer
  • Brian M. Logan as Kevin
  • Jon Fabian as Vince Cannizzaro
  • Production

    In February 1989 Jerzy Domaradzki was working with writer Trevor Farrant on another script when Farrant gave him the screenplay for Struck by Lightning. The director loved it, Terry Charatsis applied for funding to the Film Finance Corporation and managed to get the film up. It was shot in November 1989 in Adelaide.

    References

    Struck by Lightning (1990 film) Wikipedia
    Struck by Lightning (1990 film) IMDb Struck by Lightning (1990 film) themoviedb.org