''Cool Change'' is a 1986 Australian

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directed by

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. It stars Jon Blake and Lisa Armytage.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p224

Plot

A park ranger is caught in a conflict between farmers and conservationists.

Cast

* Jon Blake as Steve * Lisa Armytage as Joanna *

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as Lee *

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as James Hardwicke *Alec Wilson as Bull Raddick

Production

The film was shot on location in Mansfield and the Victorian Alps.

Critical reception

The critic from the ''

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'' called the movie "a spectacularly simplistic propaganda piece for the cattle farmers of the Victorian high plains".

Box office

'' Cool Change'' grossed $60,868 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $132,692 in 2009 dollars.

References

External links

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Australian action films 1986 films Films directed by George T. Miller 1980s English-language films 1980s Australian films {{1980s-Australia-film-stub