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Title

Waiting

Released

1991

Production Year

1990

Director

Jackie McKimmie

Comments

Waiting is an excellent film set in the Darling Downs in Queensland but shot on location in northern New South Wales. It is a funny and sensitive portrayal of what are usually considered 'women's issues' but cleverly pokes fun at issues we can all relate to, alternative lifestyles, feminism, ideological differences.

Synopsis

Best friends Sandy, Therese and Diane, with their motley crew of men children and dogs, joyfully converge on an isolated farmhouse in the Darling Downs (QLD) to participate in the birth of their friend Clare's baby.

Clare is an artist and has just won the prestigious Moet & Chandon art prize enabling her to live in France for a year and she plans to leave as soon as the baby is born.

However, all is not as it seems. Clare is the surrogate mother-to-be for Sandy whose husband fathered the child and already has two adopted children, one vietnamese boy and one aboriginal boy but is desperate for her own son.

Therese is a feminist would-be filmaker and single mother of a teenage punk. Diane is a fashion editor with money and good looks.

Once everyone arrives, Clare's contractions mysteriously cease and the subsequent waiting produces tension as personalities clash and old resentments surface.

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