One Night Stand (1984 film)

One Night Stand
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Directed by	John Duigan
Produced by	Richard Mason
Written by	John Duigan
Starring	Tyler Coppin Cassandra Delaney Jay Hackett Saskia Post David Pledger
Music by	William Motzing
Cinematography	Tom Cowan
Edited by	John Scott
Production company	Hoyts-Edgley
Distributed by	Hoyts Distribution
Release dates	5 May 1984 (1984-05-05)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Australia Canada
Language	English
Budget	A$1.4 million
Box office	A$111,978 (Australia)

One Night Stand is a 1984 film directed by John Duigan.

Plot

In Australia, four teenagers in the Sydney Opera House- Sharon, Eva, Brendan and Tony- are horrified to hear the news that nuclear war has broken out in Europe and witness an horrific newscast that depicts irradiated, pain-wracked and disfigured victims of one nuclear blast with skin hanging off their bodies. The quartet try to figure out the best way they can survive the escalating conflict, as nuclear missiles start to hit Australian military and strategic targets and it may only be a matter of time before they start to detonate over large Australian population centres such as Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Launceston, Perth, Fremantle and Canberra. At the film's end, it is left uncertain whether Sydney will be directly hit by nuclear weapons as Sydney's inhabitants await their fate in the Sydney underground, although the US spy facilities at Pine Gap and the US/Australian Joint Defense Facility Nurrungar (South Australia), as well as West Australian mineral and oil facilities at North West Cape have already been obliterated by nuclear weapons as military targets. Moreover, so has an undisclosed 'metropolitan' area to the south of Sydney.

Production

Richard Mason and John Duigan brought the script to Hoyts Edgley who agreed to back it. Simon Wincer called Duigan "a highly talented filmmaker and a brilliant writer" who was "an utter joy to work with".

The Opera House was only used for ten days of filming because it was too expensive to hire. The rest of the movie was shot in the Seymour Centre.

The film includes a performance by Midnight Oil.

Paul Hester, drummer for Split Enz and Crowded House appears in the film uncredited.

Box Office

One Night Stand grossed $111,978 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $284,424 in 2009 dollars.

See also

• Cinema of Australia

External links

• One Night Stand at IMDb
• One Night Stand at the National Film and Sound Archive
• One Night Stand at Ozmovies