MIDDLE AGE SPREAD

Year: 1979
Reference: F5204
Media type: Moving image

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Year: 1979
Reference: F5204
Media type: Moving image

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Place of production: New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories: Feature
Duration: 1:34:00
Production company: Endeavour Productions
Credits: Cast: Grant Tilly
Cast: Dorothy McKegg
Cast: Peter Sumner
Cast: Bridget Armstrong
Cast: Donna Akersten
Cast: Bevan Wilson
Cast: Kerry McGregor
Cast: John Linaker
Cast: Sophie Perkins
Cast: David Mahon
Director: John Reid
Producer: John Barnett
Writer: Keith Alberdein
From The Stage Play By: Roger Hall
Lighting Cameraman: Alun Bollinger
Sound Recordist: Craig McLeod
Editor: Michael Horton
Music: Stephen McCurdy
Production Manager: Warren Sellers
Assistant Director: Geoff Murphy
Camera Operator: Paul Leach
Camera Asst: Michael Hardcastle
Gaffer: Warrick Attewell (aka Waka)
Grip: Trou Bayliss
Best Boy: Stuart Dryburgh
Sound Assistant: Lee Tamahori
Continuity: Jackie Sullivan
Set Design: Gaylene Preston
Props: Dorthe Scheffmann
Make-Up: Leslie Van Der Wait
Wardrobe: Pat Murphy
Wardrobe: Liz Jowsey
Funded By: New Zealand Film Commission
Assistant Director: Geoff Murphy

‘Based on the play by Roger Hall, MIDDLE AGE SPREAD centres on Colin, the deputy principal of a city high school At home his wife Elizabeth has settled into the role of an increasingly disinterested partner. As the film begins, she's giving a dinner party to which four friends have been invited. Flashbacks throughout the film reveal the secrets of all the dinner guests, most importantly the slow-growing love affair between Colin and Judy, a teacher at Colin's school.

MIDDLE AGE SPREAD was the feature debut from director John Reid (Carry Me Back), as well as the debut of cinematographer Alun Bollinger (Goodbye Pork Pie), writer Keith Aberdein (Utu) and editor Mike Horton (Once Were Warriors). Based on the 1977 play by Roger Hall.’

New Zealand Film Commission; www.nzfilm.co.nz/film/middle-age-spread