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'Two struggling Australian movie makers, Chris Brookes (David Roberts) and Alex Gower (Alan Fletcher), score a success with a production called Downtime.
'Hollywood is interested, and for a while the future looks rosy for the Aussie battlers. But of course the Americans, in the shape of studio head Steve Schafler (Nicholas Hammond) and his inevitably beautiful and seductive assistant, Terri Neilson (Terri Garber), want to bend the film to suit US audiences.
'There lies the substance of the drama. Alex, who has a girlfriend back home, sticks by the principles of his art. Chris, footloose and with an eye for Terri, decides to throw in his lot with the Hollywood dream factory.'
Source:
'Croc Dundee, but No Laughs', Canberra Times, 29 March 1993, p.10 [television supplement].
