''The City's Edge'' is a 1983 Australian film co-written by
Aboriginal Australian
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writer
Bob Merritt
Bob Merritt is the retired senior pastor of Eagle Brook Church in suburban Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, a megachurch.
Early life and education
Merritt's father was Calvin Merritt, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Neshannock Towns ...
.
Plot
Andy comes to Sydney and falls in love with the sister of a
heroin addict
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.
Cast
* Tommy Lewis
*
Hugo Weaving
Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is an English actor. Born in Colonial Nigeria to English parents, he has resided in Australia for the entirety of his career. He is the recipient of six AACTA Awards, Australian Academy of Cinema and Tel ...
as Andy White
* Katrina Foster
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Mark Lee as Jim Wentworth
Production
The film was originally entitled ''Running Man'' and was never released theatrically in Australia although it was in the UK.
[David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 205]
Merritt later claimed he preferred to "write off" the experience but says it gave him the track record to make ''
Short Changed
''Short Changed'' is a 1986 Australian film directed by George Ogilvie based on a script by Aboriginal writer Bob Merritt, who described it as a "black/white '' Kramer vs Kramer''".Mary Colbert, "Positive action: Bob Merritt, playwright and scre ...
'' (1985).
[Mary Colbert, "Positive action: Bob Merritt, playwright and screenwriter", ''Cinema Papers'', May 1985 p. 24]
References
External links
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Australian drama films
1983 films
Films scored by Chris Neal (songwriter)
1980s English-language films
1983 drama films
1980s Australian films
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