Struck by Lightning (1990 film)
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Music director Paul Smyth Duration Country Australia | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Sport Screenplay Trevor Farrant Writer Trevor Farrant Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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'.
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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.
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