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The Alternative (1977)
Directed by Paul Eddey
“As sensitive as it is provocative...”
Drama, TV Movie · 1h 14m
Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take leave from her job. Caught between her ex-lover and a colleague who wants to marry her, Melanie must find a solution or an alternative to her problem. When she falls in love with a woman, she questions the value of the traditional value unit.
Cast
Wendy Hughes
Melanie Hilton
Carla Hoogeveen
Linda
Tony Bonner
Peter
Alwyn Kurts
Doherty
Don Reid
Surgeon
B
Betty Lucas
Melanie's Mother
Ken Goodlet
Melanie's Father
M
Mary Mackay
Mrs. Millbank
Robert Bruning
Photographer (uncredited)
Anne Haddy
Helen (uncredited)
J
Jackie Rees
June (uncredited)
P
Peter Adams
Noel Denning
Crew
- Director
- Paul Eddey
- Writer
- Tony Morphett
- Director of Photography
- Russell Boyd
- Editor
- Trevor Ellis
- Producer
- Robert Bruning
Details
- Release date
- 1977-04-20
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Australia
- Production
- Gemini Productions, Reg Grundy Productions, The Australian Film Commission