Unfinished Business (1985 Australian film)

Unfinished Business is a 1985 Australian film directed by Bob Ellis. Unfinished Business was nominated forAFI Awards.

Bob Ellis originally wanted to make a film in the style of My Dinner with Andre starring Patrick Cook and John Clarke called Business Lunch. Clarke would play an ABC executive about to tell Cook he was going to be fired and dialogue would be largely improvised. 60,000 was raised by Patric Juillet and Rebel PenfoldRussell to make the film but then Clarke became unavailable.Cook was ready and willing to go whenever we were but Clarke was impossible to pin down and so the whole thing lost momentum, said Ellis. We had to spend the money so the producer, Rebel Penfold Russell, asked me to come up with another small idea with business in the title. The result was Unfinished Business. We had to raise a little more money to cover it because youve no idea how hard it is to come up with a small idea. Big ideas are far easier to get. Im the greatest writer of unmade epics in the business. ........

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