''Centrespread'' is a futuristic
Ozploitation
Ozploitation films are exploitation films – a category of low-budget horror, comedy, sexploitation and action films – made in Australia after the introduction of the R rating in 1971. The year also marked the beginnings of the Australian ...
movie about a jaded photographer for
sex magazines who has been commissioned to find a girl with "a new look, a different approach, someone for the new century."
Production
Producer Wayne Groom said they "want to find an unknown girl" for the lead "and make her a star."
The movie was shot in
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...
at the
South Australian Film Corporation's studios. Filming began in September 1980.
Reception
The film was released in 1981.
David Stratton
David James Stratton (born 10 September 1939) is an English-Australian award-winning film critic, as both a journalist and interviewer, film historian and lecturer and television personality and producer.
Life and career
Born in Trowbridge, ...
described the film as "atrocious".
[David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p137] Most reviews were poor.
References
External links
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''Centrespread''at Oz Movies
1981 films
Australian science fiction films
Films set in South Australia
1980s English-language films
Australian exploitation films
1980s Australian films
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