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The Everlasting Secret Family (1988) [NR]

Release Date:
March 10, 1988

Original Title:
The Everlasting Secret Family

Alternate Titles:
O Senador
Segreti inconfessabili

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
FGH
Hemdale
International Film Management

Production Countries:
Australia

Ratings / Certifications:
GB: 18  US: NR 

Runtime: 94

Once promised, forever bound.

Overview from TheMovieDB

A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.

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Production

Adaptation:
Frank Moorhouse

Art Direction:
Peta Lawson

Best Boy Electric:
Craig Bryant

Casting:
Hilary Linstead

Cinematography:
Julian Penney

Clapper Loader:
Susi Stitt

Co-Producer:
Sue Carleton

Continuity:
Judy Whitehead

Costume Design:
Graham Purcell

Costumer:
Anthony Jones

Director:
Michael Thornhill

Editor:
Pamela Barnetta

Executive Producer:
Antony I. Ginnane

First Assistant Camera:
Sally Eccleston

Focus Puller:
Garry Phillips

Gaffer:
Reg Garside

Grip:
Lester Bishop

Makeup & Hair:
Noriko Watanabe

Music:
Tony Bremner

Producer:
Michael Thornhill

Production Design:
Peta Lawson

Production Manager:
Elizabeth Symes

Sound:
Grant Stuart
John Schiefelbein

Sound Editor:
Andrew Plain

Steadicam Operator:
Geoffrey Wharton

Still Photographer:
Barry Peake

Thanks:
Ron Cobb

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Heather McLaren

Writer:
Frank Moorhouse

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