''Shimmering Light'' is a 1978 Australian television film about an American surfer who travels to Australia in search of the perfect wave. It was one of six TV movies made in Australia by

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.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p140 It was directed by Don Chaffey.

Plot

Kevin Pearse is a 29-year-old drop-out who lives off his family trust and spends most of his time surfing. He is seeing two women, young Emily and older Moira. His father Scan arrives.

Cast

Beau Bridges Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III (born December 9, 1941) is an American actor and director. He is a three-time Emmy, two-time Golden Globe and one-time Grammy Award winner, as well as a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award nominee. Bridges was a ...

as Kevin Pearse * Lloyd Bridges as Sean Pearse *

Ingrid Mason Ingrid Mason is a Papua New Guinea born actress. Mason had a long running role on TV in The Sullivans. She was originally cast as Miranda in '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' before being replaced by Anne-Louise Lambert and then being given a diffe ...

as Emily Stuart * Victoria Shaw as Moira * Mark Hembrow as Peter * Wendy Playfair as Gwen Stuart * John Meillon * Patrick Ward

Release

This telefilm was originally aired by ABC on December 12, 1978. It released in theatres at Germany on May 17, 1979 and later aired by BBC One and

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on February 13, 1980. This telefilm was also aired by

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and Cinemax from June 18, 1981 to July 1, 1981. It reran on The Movie Channel from November 9, 1981 to April 23, 1983. In Portugal, RTP1 and RTP2 aired the telefilm in May 1983. In Spain,

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and TVE2 aired the telefilm in May 1983. In Netherlands, NPO 1 aired the telefilm in October 1982. In Italy, RAI aired the telefilm in October 1983. On September 23, 1985, Academy Home Entertainment released the film as Mutual Respect on VHS. On March 15, 1988, Video Treasures also released the film on VHS.

Reception

The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' wrote "The end product is really half-hearted. The idea was good, the acting similar. But, in the end, the Bridges family and their fellow actors were betrayed by a really ordinary script." Another reviewer in the same paper called it "a first rate telemovie."

References

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