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Overview

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Director:
Phillip Noyce
Writers:
Mark Stiles (original screenplay) &
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Release Date:
June 1983 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
One man. One woman. Caught together in the cold terror of...HEATWAVE
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Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
urban redevelopment more (3 total)

Cast

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Judy Davis ... Kate Dean
Richard Moir ... Stephen West
Chris Haywood ... Peter Houseman
Bill Hunter ... Robert Duncan
John Gregg ... Philip Lawson
Anna Maria Monticelli ... Victoria West (as Anna Jemison)
John Meillon ... Freddie Dwyer
Dennis Miller ... Mick Davies
Peter Hehir ... Cigar-smoking bodyguard
Carole Skinner ... Mary Ford
Gillian Jones ... Barbie Lee Taylor
Frank Gallacher ... Dick Molnar
Tui Bow ... Annie
Don Crosby ... Jim Taylor
Lynette Curran ... Evonne Houseman
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Heat Wave (International: English title) (alternative spelling)
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Runtime:
91 min
Country:
Australia
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia more
Company:
M & L Pty Limited more

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urban redevelopment, 5 September 2006
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Author: mgrindberg from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

Urban redevelopment in Sydney, Australia circa the early 1980's with a dark twist of violence and a moody soundtrack, nicely filmed in color, all set during the summer/Holidays, taking place sometime during the days leading up to Christmas to a crazy and out of control looking New Year's Eve in the midst of a brutal heatwave. Weaving in and out of topless bars, squatter's rights, construction unions, murder, seeping groundwater, and ruthless high rise corporations. It's sort of a story of the haves against the have-nots with Judy Davis as a leader of a group of squatters who are literally thrown out of their building by thugs to make way for a new development named Eden, and Richard Moir as the idealist architect who's designed the project. Of course they get to know each other rather intimately as Moir's character finds out about the greedy developers who back his design. There is quite a bit of politics, but Philip Noyce, the director who gave us Dead Calm, steers everything into a pretty intense concluding segment culminating in a very big rainstorm.

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