form y separately published work icon Say You Want Me single work   film/TV   crime   thriller  
Alternative title: Breaking Point
Issue Details: First known date: 1977... 1977 Say You Want Me
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'The wife of a radio talkback star is raped by a property developer with whom her husband is about to sign a lucrative endorsement contract. The deal goes ahead and she is left to decide whether to push rape charges.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 5/6/2013).

Say You Want Me was one of six telemovies put together by Lynton Taylor, vice president in charge of programming at the Nine Network, in conjunction with Film Australia and the South Australian Film Corporation. Other films in the series included Peter Weir's The Plumber and Arch Nicholson's A Good Thing Going.

Say You Want Me was followed on ABC TV by a twelve-part television series (also written in part, by Say You Want Me script-writer Laura Jones), The Oracle.

Further Reference

James Murray. 'Peter Weir Film Highlights Telemovie Series', Australian Women's Weekly, Wednesday 6 June 1979, p.25.

Notes

  • Telemovie.
  • Working title: Breaking Point.

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