''Sweet Dreamers'' is a 1981 Australian film directed by Tom Cowan and starring

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and Sue Smithers. The film is about a filmmaker and his girlfriend.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p120 Cowan has said the film was very autobiographical and met with a great deal of resistance from funding bodies. It was the last dramatic feature film directed by Cowan for a long time. The film was partly funded by the Creative Development Branch of the

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.Scott Murray, "Sweet Dreamers", ''Australian Film 1978-1992'', Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p113

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