This Australian cult classic stars the late Michael Hutchence (of INXS) and is set in Melbourne’s late 70s punk rock scene.
The film chronicles life in a chaotic, squalid share-house in the inner-city suburb of Richmond, where hippies, drug addicts, students and radicals fill their days and nights with sex, drugs, parties and television.
Writer/director Richard Lowenstein balances a series of chaotic vignettes with the central story of the romance between housemates Sam (Hutchence), the lead singer of the struggling band, Dogs in Space (based on Beargarden frontman Sam Sejavka who was Lowenstein’s housemate in Melbourne in the late 70s) and his lover Anna (Saskia Post,) who works in a nursing home and has ambitions of becoming an airline stewardess, as it spirals out of control when hard drugs enter their lives.
Tim (Nique Needles) plays ‘electronics’ in Dogs in Space, and Luchio (Tony Helou) is studying for engineering exams.
The house is frequented by dozens of friends and acquaintances who share a common interest in music. An unnamed teenage runaway (Deanna Bond) moves in without anyone objecting.
Hutchence is a brilliant symbol of reckless youth in this, his first dramatic screen role, giving Dogs in Space instant cult status upon its release.
A number of independent Australian bands feature on the soundtrack, including Whirlywind, Too Fat to Fit Through the Door, Thrush & the Cunts and Primitive Calculators.
Sam
Michael Hutchence Anna
Saskia Post Tim
Nique Needles Luchio
Tony Helou The Girl
Deanna Bond Anthony
Peter Walsh Clare
Laura Swanson Grant
Adam Briscomb Leanne
Sharon Jessop Nick
Edward Clayton-Jones Chainsaw man
Chris Haywood Barbara (Socialist Youth Alliance)
Fiona Latham
Director
Richard Lowenstein
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