Toss lives on a sheep farm with her father in New Zealand. When Toss's father dies in an accident, Ethan, an itinerant hunter, wanders onto the family farm and is given a job by her grandfather. Toss's fairly innocent relationship with Ethan is severed when he forms a relationship with her mother.
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Penelope Stewart as Elizabeth Peers
Frank Whitten as Ethan Ruir
Bill Kerr as Birdie
Fiona Kay as Lisa Peers (Toss)
Gordon Shields as Justin Peers
Vincent Ward Director
Piers Davies Associate Producer
Diana Rowan Casting
Vincent Ward Writer
Fiona Lindsay Writers' Assistant
United States 01 October 1984
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03 January 1984
A dedicated social worker joins forces with a group of senior citizens fighting City Hall to prevent the demolition of their apartment building and falls for the man she meets on a blind date at a punk rock club.
01 January 1984
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23 May 1984
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
02 January 1984
A plane crash in the Mexican desert leaves a small group of survivors who are desperate for food and water.
29 November 1984
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
09 March 1984
Three friends who don't take their life seriously are suspended from college so they decide to take revenge on the principal.
07 April 1984
Coast Zone […] explores the use of deep-focus, contrasting background figures (often in motion) with those in the foreground (sometimes in extreme close-up).
25 May 1984
A woman gets caught by the wife of her lover which results in a stabbing. Feeling guilty she runs away and joins a nunnery.
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