''Blowing Hot and Cold'' is a 1989 Australian

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film directed by Marc Gracie and starring

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and Peter Adams. The plot is about an Italian who befriends a garage owner whose daughter has run off with a drug dealer.

Premise

Two people from Italy and Australia set their cultural differences aside to search for a girl who ran off with a drug dealer.

Cast

* Peter Adams as Jack Phillips *

as Nino Patrovita *Kate Gorman as Sally Phillips

Production

It was originally announced the film would be made in 1984 starring

Arkie Whiteley Arkie Deya Whiteley (6 November 1964 – 19 December 2001) was an Australian actress who appeared in television and film. Early life and education Whiteley's parents were the renowned Australian artist Brett Whiteley and cultural figure Wen ...

directed by

Brian Trenchard-Smith Brian Medwin Trenchard-Smith (born 1946) is an English-Australian filmmaker and author, known for his idiosyncratic and satirical low-budget genre films. His filmography covers action, science fiction, martial arts, dystopian fiction, comedy, ...

.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 90 The film was shot in Redesdale, Victoria,

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, Taradale, Victoria and

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.Scott Murray, "Blowing Hot and Cold", ''Australian Film 1978–1992'', Oxford Uni Press 1993 p. 265

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''Blowing Hot and Cold''
at Oz Movies 1989 films 1989 comedy-drama films Films with screenplays by Sergio Donati Films with screenplays by Luciano Vincenzoni Films shot in Melbourne Australian comedy-drama films 1980s English-language films 1980s Australian films English-language comedy-drama films {{1980s-Australia-film-stub