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1982 · 91 mins · English
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Directed by
Phillip Noyce
Starring
John Meillon, Judy Davis, Chris Haywood, Bill Hunter, Gillian Jones, Peter Hehir

A community activist fights to halt a redevelopment scheme forcing residents out of Sydney’s Kings Cross, unfolding during an unseasonal Christmas heatwave that heightens tension. The story follows a man and a woman whose lives become entangled amid the crisis, confronting the terror of displacement and the sweltering heat of activism.

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