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Film Details - Limelight Productions , 1981

Producers:

Margaret Kelly

Joan Long

Production Companies:

Limelight Productions

Finance Organisations:

Australian Film Commission

Director of Photography:

Donald McAlpine

Editors:

William W. Anderson

Jeanine Chiavlo

Production Designers:

David Copping

Composer:

Tim Finn

Les Cock

Cast:

Incl. Nell Schofield (Debbie Vickers), Jad Capelja (Sue Knight), Geoff Rhoe (Garry), Tony Hughes (Danny), Sandy Paul (Tracy), Leander Brett (Cheryl), Jay Hackett (Bruce), Ned Lander (Strach), Joanne Olsen (Vicki), Julie Medana (Kim), Michael Shearman (Glenn), Dean Dunstone (Seagull), Tina Robinson Hansen (Freda - as Tina Robinson), Nerida Clark (Carol), Kirrily Nolan (Mrs Vickers), Alan Cassell (Mr Vickers), Rowena Wallace (Mrs Knight), Charles 'Bud' Tingwell (The Headmaster), Kate Sheil (Mrs Velland), Pamela Gibbons (Jazz ballet teacher), Lynne Murphy (Mrs Hennessy), Andrew Martin (Mr Berkhoff ), Rob Thomas (Car salesman), Brian Harrison (Mr Little), Brian Anderson (Drive-in attendant).

Release Dates:

10 December 1981 (Australia). The film received limited release in the USA (beginning 15 July 1983) and in West Germany (27 August 1982). It was also screened at the 1982 Manila International Film Festival.

Location:

Filmed largely on location at Cronulla, New South Wales.

Notes:

Also known as Al Diablo la Pubertad (Spain), Explosão da Puberdade (Portugal), Nuoruus Blues (Finland), Opowiesci o Rozkwitaniu (Poland), and Puberty Blues - Scharf Aufs Erste Mal (West Germany).

Subjects:

Settings:

Coast,
Sydney, New South Wales,
y ca. 1972

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