Going Sane

{{Short description|1987 Australian comedy film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=April 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = Going Sane | image = | caption = | director = [[Michael Robertson (filmmaker)|Michael Robertson]] | producer = [[Tom Jeffrey]] | writer = John Sandford | based_on = | narrator = | starring = [[John Waters (actor)|John Waters]]<br>[[Linda Cropper]]<br>[[Judy Morris]] | music = | cinematography = [[Dean Semler]] | editing = [[Brian Kavanagh (filmmaker)|Brian Kavanagh]] | studio = Sea Change Films | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1987|07|30|df=y}} | runtime = 89 mins | country = Australia | language = [[English language|English]] | budget = A$2.1 million<ref>Keith Connolly, "Going Sane", ''Australian Film 1978-1992'', Oxford Uni Press, 1993 p219</ref> | gross = }} '''''Going Sane''''' is a 1987 Australian comedy starring [[John Waters (actor)|John Waters]]. It was one of several films made in the 1980s where Waters plays a character who has a mid life crisis.<ref name="stratton2">David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p110</ref> In 1994 when asked to name his worst movie, Waters said ''Going Sane'' was the one "that failed to achieve its brief more than any other."<ref>[http://theaussiejohnwaters.homestead.com/90sarticles.html "A cut above the rest". By: Doug Aiton. 6 May 1995. THE SUNDAY AGE] reprinted at the John Waters fan site accessed 28 July 2013</ref>

==Cast==

* [[John Waters (actor)|John Waters]] as Martin Brown * [[Linda Cropper]] as Irene Carter * [[Judy Morris]] as Ainslee Brown * [[Frank Wilson (Australian actor)|Frank Wilson]] as Sir Colin Grant * [[Kate Raison]] as Nosh * [[Brett Climo]] as Matthew Brown * Maggie Blinco as Miss Griffiths * [[Denise Roberts]] as Mrs Chubb * Rob Steele as Sergeant

==Production== Filming started 15 July 1985.<ref>"Production", ''Cinema Papers'', March 1986 p62</ref>

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==External links== *{{IMDb title}} *[http://www.ozmovies.com.au/movie/going-sane ''Going Sane''] at Oz Movies

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