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10/03/1988 Drama 1h 34m
50
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Once promised, forever bound.

Overview

A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.

  1. Michael Thornhill

    Director

  2. Frank Moorhouse

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Arthur Dignam

    Senator

  2. Mark Lee

    Youth

  3. Heather Mitchell

    Wife

  4. Dennis Miller

    Eric, the Chauffeur

  5. John Meillon

    The Judge

  6. Beth Child

    The Pottery Woman

  7. Paul Goddard

    The Son

  8. Bogdan Koca

    The Medical Specialist

  9. John Clayton

    The Mayor

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-11-15
There is something quite creepily unremarkable about the basic, fairly odious, premise of this drama. That is the fact that a wealthy and influential Australian senator (Arthur Dignam) has a penchant for schoolboys in their later teens, and so sends his Rolls Royce to fetch them from class so that they can come and entertain him. His chauffeur “Eric” (Dennis Miller) is entirely complicit in these activities, as - it would appear - are some of his teachers when the latest conquest (Mark Lee) is summoned. Now there is no suggestion of violence here, he is quite willing to trade his ass for w...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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