John Hargreaves

Emerald City (1989)

Cast: Nicole Kidman   

Tags: Showbiz Comedy Drama Showbiz Drama 

Length: 93min

Australian author David Williamson adapted Emerald City from his own stage play. The title may conjure up images of the Wonderful Land of Oz, but the plot is set in the Munchkin-free Australian film industry. John Hargreaves stars as a prosperous...

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Boundaries of the Heart (1989)

Length: 99min

A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at her father's hotel and bar. She receives annual New Year's marriage proposals from rodeo rider Andy...

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No Worries (1993)

Cast: John Hargreaves   

Tags: Drama Family Drama Rural Drama 

Length: 92min

The Bells live on a sheep station in the Australian outback, struggling from year to year just to get by. In this story, they have suffered for a number of years from one of Australia's periodic droughts, and are practically the last holdouts in their...

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Malcolm (1986)

Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy Crime 

Length: 86min

In this hilarious, award-winning comedy, Malcolm (Colin Friels) is an innocent, naive mechanical genius with a distinct gap where sexual and social awareness normally reside. He first gets into trouble when he builds his version of a streetcar and...

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Sky Pirates (1986)

Tags: Adventure Science Fiction 

Length: 88min

A limp storyline refuses to go taut throughout this sci-fi adventure that patches together bits and pieces from its famous, multi-genre predecessors (the Indiana Jones series, The Deer Hunter, The Philadelphia Experiment, and others). The premise has...

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Hoodwink (1981)

Cast: Judy Davis Geoffrey Rush   

Tags: Docudrama Prison Film Crime 

Length: 99min

Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor...

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My First Wife (1984)

Cast: Paul Cox Wendy Hughes   

Tags: Drama Marriage Drama 

Length: 95min

Classical music DJ John Hargreaves neglects his wife Wendy Hughes, who responds by entering into an illicit romance. Upon finding out, Hargreaves leaves Hughes, but doesn't want to tell his parents; they'd never liked Hughes, and he isn't in the mood...

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Place at the Coast (1986)

Tags: Drama Family Drama Coming-of-Age 

Length: 93min

Teenager Ellie (Tushka Bergen) is the only child of the widowed physician Neil McAdam (John Hargreaves) in this finely crafted drama, and the two spend their summers at the family cottage on the Australian coast. Ellie is bored and lonely until Margot...

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Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)

Tags: Drama Childhood Drama 

Length: 116min

Set in Australia in the 1930s, this drama stars Nicholas Gledhill as P.S., a six-year-old boy who lives with his Aunt Lila (Robyn Nevin) and Uncle George (Peter Whitford). P.S.'s mother died in childbirth, so her sister Lila took him in, and while...

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