Forty-eight hours with my sister's best friend in exchange for a meeting with a possible client. It's because of guys like him people don't believe me when I tell them I'm gay.Īfter an injury that cost me my baseball career, I'm trying to leave my playing days behind and focus on being the best sports agent I can be. Meeting the guy I'm bribing to be my boyfriend for the weekend makes me question everything about myself.ĭamon - When my sister asks me to pretend to be some straight guy's boyfriend, my automatic response is to say no.

And I have to bring my boyfriend-the boyfriend who doesn't exist because I'm straight.Īt least, I think I am. Now, five years later and after a drunken encounter, I find myself invited to her wedding. When the pressure to marry my childhood sweetheart became too much, I told her I was gay and then fled to New York like my ass was on fire. The film is rated M in New Zealand for violence and cruelty.Maddox - The reason I rarely go home is three simple words: I'm a liar. Burstall admitted the film might have been more effective as a TV movie, but says it would have been harder to make a profit that way. It also rated highly on television, the rights for which earned Hexagon $70,000. The film performed reasonably at the box-office, and in 1979 reported that it had just broken even. The two leads, George Mallaby and John Waters, were familiar faces on Australian television at the time. Final Play by Eden Finley, Nov 25, 2019, Independently Published, Independently published edition, paperback Final Play (edition) Open Library It looks like you're offline. And from disastrous marriage proposals to grand gestures to life. The movie was budgeted at $244,000 but eventually cost $294,000. Before their futures become the present, Noah convinces his friends they need a group vacation-a final play before they're all tied down by responsibility and unyielding schedules.Everything is .A trip to Fiji is the last hurrah to end all hurrahs. He was attracted to Braddon's novel because it would be simple to film as it was basically a two hander, while also preparing Eliza Fraser (1976). Burstall made the film as part of a deliberate effort to move away from 'ocker material'. Russell Braddon's novel was originally set in England but was relocated to Australia.

The police become suspicious of both brothers, who are rivals over their half-cousin, Margaret. Mark Gifford, a merchant sailor on leave, then disposes of the body, attracting the suspicion of his wheelchair-using brother Robert. Hitchhiker Janine Talbort is picked up and murdered by an unseen assailant.

It was an adaptation of the 1972 novel End Play by Russell Braddon. End Play is a 1976 Australian thriller film directed by Tim Burstall and starring George Mallaby, John Waters and Ken Goodlet.

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