''Middle Age Spread'' is a 1979 New Zealand film. It is an adaptation of the Roger Hall play of the same name. This is John Reid's directorial feature debut.

Plot

A deputy principal of a high school takes up jogging to combat a spreading waistline and gradually enters into an affair with a co-worker's wife when his wife loses interest in him.

Cast

* Grant Tilly – Colin * Donna Akersten – Judy *

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– Elizabeth *

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– Isobel * Bevan Wilson – Robert *

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– Reg

References

*''New Zealand Film 1912–1996'' by Helen Martin & Sam Edwards p. 69 (1997, Oxford University Press, Auckland)

External links

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''Middle Age Spread'' (1979)
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