Moving Out

Moving Out (1983)

Coming-of-age story about an Italian-Australian teenager making his way in the world.

Date of release
1983-03-25
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Drama
Director
Michael Pattinson

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$235.3K
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 4

Moving Out is a 1983 film about a young Italian-Australian adolescent in Melbourne directed by Michael Pattinson.

Production

Director Michael Pattinson made much later in publicity of his casting techniques for the film, claiming that he had seen and interviewed some 2,000 teenagers in Melbourne schools.

Pattinson in the first instance avoided standard audition techniques and instead asked the teenagers to tell jokes:

"Schools were very helpful when we lined up auditions for the kids," Mr Pattinson says. "We'd ask the kids to tell a joke, one with a story, it didn't matter how dirty. It turned out to be a good test of whether they could act in front of a camera." (The Age 19 April 1983)

The experience was so much fun that he and his scriptwriter, Jan Sardi, rewrote some of the film's characters around the school kids they'd met" (Sydney Morning Herald, 19 May 1983)

For all the talk of the wide-ranging casting exercise, in some areas the seed fell close to the tree. Vince Colosimo was a former student of Jan Sardi's at St Josephs Marist Brothers College in North Fitzroy - the running joke is that Sardi failed him in drama in his first year.(In the DVD commentary, when Colosimo asks why Sardi failed him, Sardi tells him to "come on", he was a rebel and that can be seen in the film).

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