Lover boy

Set in Melbourne’s industrialised Western suburbs, “LoverBoy” is a dramatic story of love and revenge. It is the story of a love affair between a 16 year old boy, Mick, and a 45 year old woman, Sally. Brought together by loneliness and their bleak environment, they find some short- lived comfort in each other’s arms. But what begins innocently, degenerates into bitterness and violence, and leads to a shattering conclusion in which their lives are changed forever. Cast includes Gillian Jones, Noah Taylor, Alice Garner and Ben Mendelsohn.

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Credits

producer

Daniel Scharf

director

Geoffrey Wright

Duration

00:59:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

300937

Language

English

Audience classification

MA

Subject categories

Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Adultery

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Love

Romance

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q6692348

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Australia, 1988

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