The Alternative
6.2
“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.
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Wendy Hughes
Melanie Hilton
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My Brilliant Career
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Carla Hoogeveen
Linda
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Tony Bonner
Peter
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Alwyn Kurts
Doherty
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Tim
Don Reid
Surgeon
Known for
Smokey and the Bandit II
Betty Lucas
Melanie's Mother
Known for
Jindabyne
Ken Goodlet
Melanie's Father
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Mary Mackay
Mrs. Millbank
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Robert Bruning
Photographer (uncredited)
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Anne Haddy
Helen (uncredited)
Known for
Neighbours
Jackie Rees
June (uncredited)
Also in
Barney
Peter Adams
Noel Denning
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Number 96
Paul Eddey Director · Tony Morphett Writer Robert Bruning Story
First release April 20, 1977 · Produced in Australia · Production Reg Grundy Productions, The Australian Film Commission
Production
Gemini Productions
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Reg Grundy Productions
Production
The Australian Film Commission
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Australia
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Original language
English
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English
Release dates
Australia · April 20, 1977
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