The Best of Friends (film)

The Best of Friends is a 1982 Australian romantic comedy about two best friends who have an affair one night, resulting in the woman becoming pregnant.

Cast

 * Graeme Blundell as Tom
 * Angela Punch McGregor as Melanie
 * Ruth Cracknell as Iris
 * Mark Lee as Bruce
 * Serge Lazareff as Colin

Production
The script won $10,000 in a competition by the New South Wales Film Corporation for best original quality. Neville Wran presented the writer and director with the cheque.

Angela Punch McGregor later claimed that: "It was an excellent script. It was then mutilated by all of us. [Writer] Donald McDonald was very upset about it. The film was badly handled and I was miscast but I took it because I wanted the challenge of doing a comedy, which I hadn't done before. I thought my role was well written and wasn't cardboard... The director wasn't up to it, the film was miscast, the budget wasn't good."