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Middle Age Spread
1979, 1080hd
Johnny's comments:
Time for a New Zealand
Classic, this one from way back in 1979.
Middle Age Spread is a
comedy-drama about Colin (Grant Tilly), a man who has
hit-the-wall in his life despite being a shoo-in to be
the new principal at the school he works at and a
reasonably happy home life with his wife Elizabeth
(Dorothy McKegg) and teen daughter Jane (Kerry
McGregor). Then enters a new teacher, Judy (Donna
Akersten) who he's very interested in know, so he
invites her to his and his wife's next dinner party
and she comes with her rather square husband Robert
(Bevan Wilson). Also at the party is long time friend
Reg (Peter Sumner), who's boorish behaviour always
livens up a party. One day, Colin spots Judy waiting
for a bus and he offers her a lift home and she
accepts. Turns out that although she's married to
Robert with kids, she has has her own place and seems
very much like an independent woman, something that
intrigues Colin. Meanwhile, he watches Reg have an
affair with one of his students and enjoying himself
while he's stuck in meetings. When he gets the job as
the headmaster, things are looking up and then he
bumps into Judy and they hit it off so well that
except for an interruption, they almost begin an
affair. After being rejected by his wife, Colin begins
an affair with Judy and it enlivens him. But, it's all
about to collapse dramatically for Colin and it begins
with his daughter becoming pregnant and then he gets
found out with Judy by Reg, who isn't the most subtle
of people as he's about to find out once more.
Mildly funny movie about a man
having a midlife-crisis, mostly due to Peter Sumner's
obnoxious lefty uni professor who's always lauding it
over people despite coasting in his own career. And as
is typical of New Zealand movies of the time, it ends
it very depressing way, it now just seems like it was
mandatory to never have a positive ending when things
start going well. It has that 70s vibe where everyone
has discovered sex and it's all freewheeling about it,
except for Colin and Elizabeth until Colin has his
affair. Judy is a baffling character, I can't work out
how she was living in her own house while her husband
and kids where in another house. And the ongoing joke
in the movie is that Judy sleeps with everyone and
Robert seems completely unaware of it. Then there's a
scene where Colin asks a very drunk Reg to drive him
home and he does! Fuck me have times changed. The
movie is pretty watchable even if I didn't really
relate to any of it but this movie is very much a
relic.
Decided to try out NZ OnDemand for
the first time, the only place Middle Age Spread seems
to be available and I've got to say, the HD transfer
is pretty damn good. Genuinely surprised at how good
it is. Too bad I could only screen capture the movie
so the videos are a bit jittery, but it helps that
there's not a lot of movement in the below videos. I
wish I could get a hold of a download so that I can
work with it, but the site doesn't seem to offer that.
The videos are not bad, but they could be better and
the Donna Akersten videos are quite long and better
nudity from her than in the movie I capped recently,
Sleeping Dogs.
Also, NZ OnDemand have just in the
last month or so put up the long forgotten Among The
Cinders which is fantastic as I'll finally get to cap
Rebecca Gibney's nude debut but sadly it looks like
it'll be another screen capture job. Damn it all...
Wiki
Oman and Donna Akersten film clip (samples below)
Oman
Akersten
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