TMDb Rating
5.0/10
1 verified votes
Trial Run (1985)
Thriller
91 min
Plot Summary
Housewife Rosemary Edmonds leaves her family to take up residence in a remote cottage on the Otago coastline so that she can conduct a photographic essay on the yellow-eyed penguin. No sooner has she moved in than she becomes the victim of a series of increasingly more malevolent attacks from an unknown assailant.
Why this could be the movie
- Plot hook: Housewife Rosemary Edmonds leaves her family to take up residence in a remote cottage on the Otago coastline so that she can conduct a photographic essay on the yellow-eyed penguin.
- Genre cues: Thriller
- Director clue: Melanie Read
- Lead cast: Annie Whittle and Judith Gibson
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Keywords to include
ThrillerMelanie ReadAnnie WhittleJudith Gibson1985
Director
Melanie Read
Top Cast
Annie WhittleJudith GibsonChristopher BrounPhilippa MayneStephen Tozer
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