''Centrespread'' is a futuristic

Ozploitation Ozploitation films are exploitation films – a category of low-budget horror, comedy, sexploitation and action films – made in Australia after the introduction of the R rating in 1971. The year also marked the beginnings of the Australia ...

movie about a jaded photographer for sex magazines who has been commissioned to find a girl with "a new look, a different approach, someone for the new century."

Production

Producer Wayne Groom said they "want to find an unknown girl" for the lead "and make her a star." The movie was shot in

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at the

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's studios. Filming began in September 1980.

Reception

The film was released in 1981.

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described the film as "atrocious".David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p137 Most reviews were poor.

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