Love Serenade

Love Serenade
Directed byShirley Barrett
Screenplay byShirley Barrett
Produced byJan Chapman
Starring
CinematographyMandy Walker
Edited byDenise Haratzis
Distributed byBeyond Films (Australia)
Miramax Films (international)
Release date
  • 20 May 1996 (1996-05-20)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Box office$836,110

Love Serenade is a 1996 Australian comedy film written and directed by Shirley Barrett. It has the tagline: "Two sisters will do anything to hook the right man".[1]

There are not many characters in Love Serenade, which is set in a fictitious, almost-deserted town called Sunray, located on the Murray River. It is a thinly disguised version of Robinvale, Victoria, which was the location of the film.[2]

The film is about a pair of sisters, Dimity (Miranda Otto) and Vicki-Ann (Rebecca Frith), who share a house. Dimity, the shy and insecure sibling, is a waitress at a local Chinese restaurant. Vicki-Ann, the brash one, is a hair stylist. Both are looking for love, although the prospects in Sunray seem bleak, at best. That is, until Ken Sherry (George Shevtsov), a thrice divorced Brisbane DJ personality, moves into the house next door.[3]

During the filming of the Silo Scene, stuntman Collin Dragsbaek died when he fell onto a faulty airbag.[4]

  1. ^ Love Serenade (1996)
  2. ^ "Love Serenade". Film North West Victoria. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
  3. ^ Love Serenade review Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Cahill, Phillippe (13 May 1999). "Oz biz under fire after two stuntmen die". Variety. Archived from the original on 17 August 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2010.