Every Move She Makes

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | director = Catherine Millar | producer = Erica Rayner | writer = Catherine Millar | based_on = story by Anne Whitehead | starring = Julie Nihill<br>Doug Bowles<br>Pepe Trevor | music = | cinematography = Ian Warburton | editor = Bill Murphy | network = ABC | company = ABC | released = {{Start date|1984}} | runtime = 75 mins | country = Australia | language = English | budget = }} '''''Every Move She Makes''''' is a 1984 Australian TV movie about a woman who has an obsessed lover.<ref name="scott">Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p53</ref> It was written and directed by Catherine Millar and produced by Erina Rayner.<ref>{{Citation | last= Hawker | first= Philipp | title= With friends like that, who needs . . . | url= | periodical= The Age | date= 23 August 1984 }}</ref> It was the fifth in a collection of six films in the series ''Sunday Australian Movies''.<ref>{{Citation | last= Bolton | first= Matthew | title= ABC film series takes an up-to-date attitude | url= | periodical= The Age | date= 26 July 1984 }}</ref>

==Cast== * Julie Nihill as Alison Berger * Doug Bowles as Matthew Pitt * Pepe Trevor as Jackie * James Laurie as Andrew * Bruce Myles as Defence * Victor Kazan as Prosecurtor * Bruce Knappett as Berger * Ross Williams as Alison's Supervisor * Rob Williams as Sgt. McCechnie * Shane Connor as Nick * Mike Bishop as Bob * Alton Harvey as Mr. Pitt * Eileen Chapman as Mrs. Pitt * Vanessa Windsor as Cecilia * Julie Nihill as Alison Berger

==Reception==

Marie McNamara of the Age says Nihill's performance is a "masterful rendition" and calls the film a "tense, well-scripted drama."<ref>{{Citation | last= McNamara | first= Marie | title= Worrisome triangle | url= | periodical= The Age | date= 23 August 1984 }}</ref> Leonie Lamont in the Sun-Herald said "Every Move She Makes is a disturbing movie. Alison Berger is a normal woman whose life is turned into a nightmare by her tormentor. It happen to anyone."<ref>{{Citation | last= Lamont | first= Leonie | title= Chilling tale of obsession | url= | periodical= The Sun-Herald | date= 26 August 1984 }}</ref> In The Sydney Morning Herald Marian Theobald says it is "the best kind of thriller — if you have a high tolerance level for fear."<ref>{{Citation | last= Theobald | first= Marian | title= An office romance tinged with fear | url= | periodical= The Sydney Morning Herald | date= 20 August 1984 }}</ref> Dennis Pryor in the Age says "This is not an easy film to write about. It is packed with ideas, images, symbols and perceptions of the way things are for women. Perhaps there are too many ideas to contain in a single film."<ref name="Pryor">{{Citation | last= Pryor | first= Dennis | title= A woman with plenty to say | url= | periodical= The Age | date= 1 September 1984 }}</ref> John O'Hara writes in Cinema Papers "The film works better as a set of variations on a classic horror theme than as an extended account of female isolation in a contemporary male world."<ref>{{Citation | last= O'Hara | first= John | title= Sunday Night at the ABC | url= | periodical= Cinema Papers | date= October-November 1984 }}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://www.abc.net.au/abccontentsales/s1168942.htm ''Every Move She Makes''] at ABC *{{IMDb title|0365172}}

Category:Australian drama television films Category:1984 television films Category:1984 films Category:1984 drama films Category:1984 English-language films Category:English-language drama films