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The Alternative
As sensitive as it is provocative...
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
- Wendy Hughes as Melanie Hilton
- Carla Hoogeveen as Linda
- Tony Bonner as Peter
- Alwyn Kurts as Doherty
- Don Reid as Surgeon
- Betty Lucas as Melanie's Mother
- Ken Goodlet as Melanie's Father
- Mary Mackay as Mrs. Millbank
- Robert Bruning as Photographer (uncredited)
- Anne Haddy as Helen (uncredited)
- Jackie Rees as June (uncredited)
- Peter Adams as Noel Denning
Details
- Director
- Paul Eddey
- Released
- April 20, 1977
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Studio
- Gemini Productions, Reg Grundy Productions and The Australian Film Commission
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 4.3 / 10 from 3 votes
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