''Bachelor Girl'' is a 1988 Australian TV movie.
[David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p331]
Plot
Dorothy Bloom is a 32-year-old single soap opera writer planning a long, quiet weekend in Melbourne. Her Aunt Esther wants her to meet a gynecologist but instead she runs into Karl Stanton, an old friend from uni days.
Cast
*Lyn Pierse as Dot Bloom
*
Kym Gyngell as Karl Stanton
*Jan Friedl as Helen Carter
*
Bruce Spence
Bruce Spence (born 17 September 1945) is a New Zealand–Australian actor. Spence has amassed over 100 film and television credits and has also acted in theatre.
Biography
Spence won an AFI Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1971 comedy ...
as Alistair Dredge Jr
*Doug Tremlett as Charles
*Ruth Yaffe as Aunt Esther
*Jack Perry as Uncle Isaac
*
Monica Maugham as Sybil
*
Tim Robertson
Tim Robertson is an Australian actor and writer.
He is a graduate of the University of Western Australia] (1965) and taught at Flinders University in Adelaide, where he began adapting and directing plays. He joined the Australian Performing Gro ...
as Grant
*Mark Minchinton as Gazza
*Christine Mahoney as Jenny
*Denis Moore as Bert
Production
It was financed with the assistance of Film Victoria and the Australian Film Commission.
Reception
The TV critic from ''The Age'' called the film "wonderfully whimsical. A sort of Aussie ''
Heartburn (film), Heartburn'', it combines liberal helpings of Jewish philosophy and humour, off-beat animation, accelerated footage and delicious satire."
Barbara Hooks, TV review ''The Age'' 5 February 1988 p 12
accessed 20 June 2013
References
External links
''Bachelor Girl''
at IMDb
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''Bachelor Girl''
at TCMDB
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''Bachelor Girl''
at Screen Australia
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Bachelor Girl
at Oz Movies
Australian television films
1988 films
1980s English-language films
1980s Australian films
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