Blowing Hot and Cold is a 1989 Australian comedy-drama film directed by Marc Gracie and starring Joe Dolce and Peter Adams. The plot is about an Italian who befriends a garage owner whose daughter has run off with a drug dealer.

Blowing Hot and Cold
Directed byMarc Gracie
Written byRosa Colosimo
Sergio Donati
Reg McLean
Luciano Vincenzoni
Produced byRosa Colosimo
StarringJoe Dolce
Peter Adams
CinematographyJames Grant
Edited byNicolas Lee
Music byJoe Dolce
Production
companies
Chancom Limited
Colosimo Film Productions
Distributed byFilmtrust
Release date
  • August 1989 (1989-08)
Running time
85 mins
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Premise

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Two people from Italy and Australia set their cultural differences aside to search for a girl who ran off with a drug dealer.

Cast

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Production

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It was originally announced the film would be made in 1984 starring Arkie Whiteley directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith.[1][2][3]

The film was shot in Redesdale, Victoria, Kyneton, Diggers Rest, Victoria, Taradale, Victoria and Melbourne.[4]

References

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  1. ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 90
  2. ^ Nick Roddick, "For deaf, read Italian", Cinema Papers, September 1985 pp. 13–14
  3. ^ "Whitely to star in film". The Canberra Times. Vol. 58, no. 17, 744. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 28 April 1984. p. 18. Retrieved 29 August 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ Scott Murray, "Blowing Hot and Cold", Australian Film 1978–1992, Oxford Uni Press 1993 p. 265
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