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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1978 DVD Release: 11/15/2005 Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 50 mins Studio: Blue Underground Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Drama

Set between the years 1949 and 1956, Newsfront tracks the destinies of two brothers, their adventures and misadventures placed in the context of sweeping social and political changes in their native Australia. Both of the protagonists are newsreel photographers. Frank (Gerard Maguire) is constitutionally resistant to change, while Len (Bill Kennedy) welcomes any alterations in his own life and in the world around him. The film fluctuates between black and white and color, between actual news footage and reconstructed events. Newsfront is what The Way We Were might have looked like on a tiny budget with a cast of unknowns. The film represented a laudable feature-film directorial debut for one-time documentary filmmaker Philip Noyce. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Bill Hunter - Len Maguire
Wendy Hughes - Amy McKenzie
Gerard Kennedy - Frank Maguire
Chris Haywood - Chris Hewett
John Ewart - Charlie Henderson
Angela Punch - Fay Maguire
Don Crosby - A.G. Marwood
Bryan Brown - Geoff the Editor
John Clayton - Cliff the Production Manager
Lorna Lesley - Ellie
John Dease - Ken, the Narrator