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'On Queensland’s Gold Coast in the early 1980s, a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey (Ray Barrett), sets out to find a missing girl, the daughter of a senior politician. Stacey is down on his luck and desperate for a drink. His ex-wife has left him, he misses his dog Somare, and the publisher cancels his book about police corruption. He plunges into the Gold Coast’s nightmarish world of corruption, sex, violence, cult religion and dirty politics. He gets beaten up, finds and loses the girl and stumbles upon an unlikely plot for a military coup. People keep dying around him and he must continually resist the temptations put before him. Surviving in Surfer’s Paradise is not easy.'
Source: Australian Screen. (Sighted: 29/8/2013)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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A Hard-Boiled World : Goodbye Paradise and The Empty Beach
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Literature/Film Quarterly , vol. 21 no. 2 1993; (p. 112-119)
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A Hard-Boiled World : Goodbye Paradise and The Empty Beach
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Literature/Film Quarterly , vol. 21 no. 2 1993; (p. 112-119)
Awards
- 1983 winner AWGIE Awards — Film Award — Original
- 1982 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Film
- 1982 winner Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Original Screenplay
Last amended 29 Aug 2013 13:08:07
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- Gold Coast, Queensland,
- 1980-1981
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