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The Alternative

04/20/1977

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1hr 14min

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Drama

,TV Movie

As sensitive as it is provocative...

STORY

Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take leave from her job. Caught between her ex-lover and a colleague who wants to marry her, Melanie must find a solution or an alternative to her problem. When she falls in love with a woman, she questions the value of the traditional value unit.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Wendy Hughes
  • Carla Hoogeveen
  • Tony Bonner
  • Alwyn Kurts
  • Don Reid

    Directors

  • Paul Eddey
  • Lyn McEncroe

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Gemini Productions
  • Reg Grundy Productions Pty.
  • The Australian Film Commission

    Production Countries

  • Australia

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Wendy Hughes

Melanie Hilton

Carla Hoogeveen

Linda

Tony Bonner

Peter

Alwyn Kurts

Doherty

Don Reid

Surgeon

Betty Lucas

Melanie's Mother

Ken Goodlet

Melanie's Father

Mary Mackay

Mrs. Millbank

Robert Bruning

Photographer (uncredited)

Anne Haddy

Helen (uncredited)