St Margaret's church, Port Road, Woodville, is the location for the climax of the film, Kerry's wedding, with the Woodville hotel across the road in the background where the bridesgroom and friends warm up with a drink. It was eventually made in association with Film Australia at feature length, and the budget would have been bigger than originally planned, but even then its budget would have been modest. The Sydney Morning Herald, 2nd December 1987, suggested that the Australian Film Commission had allocated $174,000 to make the film. present a Gillian Armstrong film tail credit copyrights to Film Australia alone.īudget: not available, low. Production company: Film Australia and the Big Picture Co. (For a slightly longer description of the contents, see 'about the film', with spoilers). This is an engrossing film that is sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always a fascinating study of growing up. Armstrong captures the developments and changes within each intimate portrait of the girls - the changes caused by life, chance, environment, pressure from society and individual temperament. In Bingo, Bridesmaids & Braces we meet the three again at age 26 = 1988. Four years later in " 14's Good, 18's Better" Armstrong recorded another real life chapter in the lives of the three girls. At 14, the girls reveal dreams of white weddings, the ideal husband and joys of motherhood. In 1976 Armstrong first captured the lives of the three girls in "Smokes & Lollies". Armstrong demonstrates that life, not scriptwriters, create the best screenplays.īingo, Bridesmaids & Braces shows us the reality of growing up in Australia as seen through the eyes of three girls, Kerry, Diana and Josie.
Gillian's latest film, Bingo, Bridesmaids & Braces is a rare and special experience. Writer and Director Gillian Armstrong is best known for her highly acclaimed films "My Brilliant Career" and "High Tide".
On the rear cover, there was other loglines: "real lives remarkable true stories" and "sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always fascinating". Now at 26 it's bingo, bridesmaids & braces." At 18 it was babies more smokes and less lollies. The VHS release went with the three young women on the front cover and the pitch "At 14 it was smokes and lollies. The growing families of Josie and Diana continue to surprise us, and the three women start to settle down and move away from their rebellious teenage years.
#FILM CLASS BINGO SERIES#
Now twenty six years of age, and with Kerry the last to marry, the third instalment in the series is structured around her wedding. The DVD release of the film contained this short synopsis:
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