Struck by Lightning (1990 film)
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| Directed by | Jerzy Domaradzki |
| Produced by | Terry J. Charatsis Trevor Farrant |
| Written by | Trevor Farrant |
| Starring |
Garry McDonald Brian Vriends Catherine McClements |
| Music by | Paul Smyth |
| Cinematography | Yuri Sokol |
| Edited by | Simon James |
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105 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | A$2.6 million |
Struck by Lightning is a 1990 Australian film directed by Jerzy Domaradzki. The film was nominated in 4 AFI Award categories, including Best Director and Best Film. It won the film award at the Human Rights Medal and Awards in 1990.
Garry McDonald plays Ollie, a grumpy alcoholic workshop supervisor at a shelter called Saltmarsh. He hires Pat (Brian Vriends), a school teacher, to develop an experimental fitness program for the intellectually disabled young adults in the shelter. Pat teaches P.E and decides to try to get them involved in soccer, with some interesting results. Jill is Ollie's social worker, who Ollie calls 'the bitch'.
In February 1989 Jerzy Domaradzki was working with writer Trevor Farrant on another script when Farrant gave him the screenplay for Struck by Lightning. The director loved it, Terry Charatsis applied for funding to the Film Finance Corporation and managed to get the film up. It was shot in November 1989 in Adelaide.
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