Cool Change

Cool Change (1986)

Park ranger Steve Mitchell is torn between Lee, a beautiful sly political aide from Melbourne who supports the government's decision to turn the local grazing areas into a national park, and his old flame Joanna, a rancher who opposes it.

Date of release
1986-04-10
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Drama
Director
George T. Miller

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$60.9K

Cool Change is a 1986 Australian action film directed by George T. Miller. It stars Jon Blake and Lisa Armytage. It was not a financial success despite coming from the same producer and director as The Man from Snowy River.

Production

Geoff Burrowes, the producer, was a passionate advocate of cattlemen's issues in the High Country. His wife, Kerri Lovick, was from a long-standing cattle family around the cattle region. Burrowes had a huge box office success with The Man from Snowy River, set in cattle country, and owned two properties near Merrijog.

The film was shot on location in Mansfield and the Victorian Alps.

My role is that of an entertainer. What one must not do is confuse the political reality with the entertainment reality. Cool Change I hope is not a polemic, not an exercise in didacticism. To make a low budget love story in the country, which is what I wanted to do... well, it would have been churlish to have turned one's back on the issue. It does not aim to solve the controversy of the High Country.

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