Community opposition to an urban renewal project in Sydney receives a setback when its spearhead, the editor of a radical newsrag, disappears without trace. Her closest associate tries to fill her shoes and at the same time to pick up her trail. The socio-political concerns never derail the movie from the thriller track, nor demand periodic whistle-stop orations. Good atmosphere (not just the heat or the Christmas season, but the pervasive air of paranoia), and well-sustained tension throughout, although never really terrifically tense until very near the end. With Judy Davis and Richard Moir; directed by Phillip Noyce. (1982) — Duncan Shepherd
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