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Summary: Asta Cadell, a lawyer traveling through the Australian Outback on holiday, stops in a small Western Australian town after her motorcycle breaks down and shacks up with Tim Curtis, the local mechanic, while fixing it. She then beco...
Release Date: July 15, 1988
Genre: Drama
Director:
Steve Jodrell
Runtime: 1 h 34 min
MPAA: R
Movie budget: $ 1,650,000
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