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Trial Run

Film, 1984

 Trial Run

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Rosemary Edmonds (Annie Whittle) is a photographer, mother and middle-distance runner. A project photographing the rare yellow-eyed penguin sends her to a remote Otago cottage. On arrival odd happenings become increasingly menacing. However Rosemary refuses to be intimidated. Events escalate, sending her running from her unknown assailant to the phone box for help in the race of her life. Bird-watching, stranger danger and feminist film theory line up for a time trial in Melanie Read's first feature. Marathon champ Allison Roe - who trained Whittle for the film - makes a brief cameo.

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