Trial Run (1985)
Housewife Rosemary Edmonds leaves her family to take up residence in a remote cottage on the Otago coastline so that she can conduct a photographic essay on the yellow-eyed penguin. No sooner has she moved in than she becomes the victim of a series of increasingly more malevolent attacks from an unknown assailant.
- Date of release
- 1985-07-17
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Thriller
- Director
- Melanie Read
Casting
- Annie Whittle — Rosemary Edmonds
- Judith Gibson — Frances Hunt
- Christopher Broun — James Edmonds
- Philippa Mayne — Anna Edmonds
- Stephen Tozer — Michael Edmonds
- Martyn Sanderson — Alan West
- Lee Grant — Mrs. Jones
- Frances Edmond — Police Constable Miller
- Teresa Woodham — Publisher
- Allison Roe — Allison
- Karen Sims — Reporter
- Maggie Eyre — Miss Walsh
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: New Zealand
Trial Run is a 1984 New Zealand film directed by Melanie Read starring Annie Whittle. The film is a feminist revision of the thriller genre.
Production
Trial Run was the first New Zealand feature film to be written and directed by a woman, and had a largely female cast and crew. Marathon runner Allison Roe and reporter Karen Sims appear briefly as themselves in a television interview seen early in the film.
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