As Time Goes By (1988 film)

As Time Goes By
	Film poster
Directed by	Barry Peak
Produced by	Chris Kiely
Written by	Barry Peak
Starring	Max Gillies; Bruno Lawrence; Nique Needles
Music by	Peter Sullivan
Cinematography	John Ogden
Edited by	Ralph Strasser
Release date	1988
Running time	96 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Box office	AU $5,854[1]

As Time Goes By (originally titled The Cricketer) is a 1988 Australian science fiction comedy film directed by Barry Peak and starring Max Gillies, Bruno Lawrence, and Nique Needles. The title song is heard in the Australian version of the film but not in overseas prints, because of its high cost.[2]

Plot synopsis

A surfer from Penong receives a letter from his mother which she passes on before she dies which tells him to meet him 50 miles west of the small town of Dingo on a certain date in 1989, 25 years after the letter was sent. He encounters a series of unusual small town characters and the small-town cop "Rider", before being dragged into a world of small-town politics, time travel and a scheme involving Joe Bogart, a time-travelling alien whose spaceship's camouflage unit stopped working while he was in Los Alamos working on the Manhattan project; " Joe Bogart's"

Cast

Bruno Lawrence as Ryder
Nique Needles as Mike
Ray Barrett as J.L. Weston
Marcelle Schmitz as Connie Stanton
Mitchell Faircloth as James McCauley
Max Gillies as Joe Bogart
Deborah Force as Cheryl
Christine Keogh as Margie
Don Bridges as Ern
Jane Clifton as Mechanic

Accolades

Nique Needles won Best Actor in A Science Fiction Film at the 1988 Fantafestival.

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References

"Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 24 October 2009
David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p 282–283

External links

As Time Goes By at IMDb
As Time Goes By at Oz Movies

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[1] "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 24 October 2009

[stratton2-2] David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p 282–283