Alterations (film)

Alterations is a two-part 1988 Australian television film for the ABC shot in 1987 at Canberra. It deals with a married couple and their respective affairs.^[1]

Alterations
Written by	Cory Taylor
Directed by	Julian Pringle
Starring	Angela Punch-McGregor Richard Moir
Music by	Andrew Bell
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
Production
Cinematography	Jeff Malouf
Editor	Michael Honey
Running time	86 mins
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	13 March 1988 (1988-03-13)

Plot

Part One: Ann is having an affair with Michael, best friend of her husband Richard.

Part Two: What would happen if Richard had an affair with Eleanor.

Cast

• Richard Moir as Richard
• Angela Punch-McGregor as Ann
• Linden Wilkinson as Martha
• Steven Jacobs as Michael
• Gillian Jones as Rachel
• Alan David Lee as Robert
• Kim Krejus as Eleanor
• Karen Linley as Alice (child in 1983)
• Michelle Linley as Alice (child in 1986)
• Tim Drummond as Duncan (child in 1983)
• Scott Bartle as Duncan (child in 1986)

Reception

The Age called it "an enigmatic, might-have-been story of Adultery His, Adultery Hers in middle class Canberra, it is peopled with cold, unreachable characters who deliver Taylor's stacatto script - it barely contains a sentence of over three words - in deliberately stagey monotones."^[2]

The Sydney Morning Herald called it "more interesting than it was successful... nevertheless, it was a film well worth screening and watching."^[3]