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The Girl Who Came Late aka Daydream Believer is a 1991 Australian romantic comedy film starring Miranda Otto, Martin Kemp and Gia Carides; and directed by Kathy Mueller. Otto was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Award for "Best Actress in a Lead Role".[2]

The Girl Who Came Late
Directed by	Kathy Mueller
Written by	Saturday Rosenberg
Produced by	Ben Gannon
Starring	Miranda Otto Martin Kemp Gia Carides
Cinematography	Andrew Lesnie
Edited by	Robert Gibson
Music by	Todd Hunter Johanna Pigott
Distributed by	Beyond Films
Release date	1991 (1991)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English
Box office	A$24,885 (Australia)[1]

Plot

The 'Girl' of the title is Nell Tiscowitz (Otto), a struggling actress with an affinity for horses.[3] She meets wealthy rock music promoter and stable owner Digby Olsen (Kemp). Nell's best friend and flatmate, Wendy (Carides) provides dubious love-lorn advice. After Nell uses her 'telepathy' to help Digby tame horses they eventually fall in love.

Production

The film was one of five films financed by the FFC Film Fund in 1990. Otto was cast after over 200 girls auditioned; it was only her second major role, after Emma's War. The role of Digby entailed looking at actors from London and Los Angeles; after Martin Kemp was cast, the occupation of the character was changed from theatre entrepreneur to rock promoter.[4]

Release

Ozmovies says of the release:

The film was given a short release at four Hoyts cinemas (including Hoyts Centre) in Sydney, beginning 3rd September 1992, but other bookings were very limited... (It) had a frosty reception from newspaper reviewers at the time of its limited domestic release, which saw only Sydney papers (and the national The Australian) take a look at it.[5]

References

External links

• The Girl Who Came Late at IMDb
• Daydream Believer at Ozmovies

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