Main Cast: John Savage, Kerry Armstrong, Jeffrey Thomas, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Rigg
Release Year: 1990
Country: AU
Run Time: 97 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
A humble but beautiful secretary tires of her husband's eternal depression and embarks upon an affair with a dashing media magnate in this melodrama. The woman is at first dazzled by the man's wealth, charisma, and sexual prowess and pays no heed to the darker side appearing through the cracks of his charming exterior, but soon enough she comes to see that she is in love with a ruthless man when he has her husband killed, making it look like suicide. He is also blackmailing politicians and heartlessly buying up international businesses with no regard for anyone else but himself. Still the woman passionately loves him even though she refuses to become the traditionally submissive mistress. Unfortunately, for him, she refuses to be dumped and at one point crosses a line and insults him during a business dinner. He gets angry, throws her on the dinner table and rapes her in front of his clients. Finally the light dawns on the shattered woman--this entertainment mogul who piously appears the perfect philanthropist on screen is not a nice man. She then decides to get revenge and stop him for good. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Rhys McConnochie - Bill Stockton; Nicholas Bell - Piggott; Ian Scott - Holmes; Stephen Whittaker - Roberts; Stacey Valkenburg - Young Michelle; Jacek Koman - Bergman
Credit
Bernadette Wynack - Art Director, Aphrodite Kondos - Costume Designer, Frank Howson - Director, Philip Reid - Editor, Jon Dowding - Production Designer, Dan Burstall - Cinematographer, David Connell - Cinematographer, Frank Howson - Producer, Victoria Rowell - Set Designer, Frank Howson - Screenwriter
