The Alternative

The Alternative

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 20, 1977

Runtime

1h 14m

Genres

Drama, TV Movie

User Score

20%

Original Title

The Alternative

Production Companies

Gemini Productions, Reg Grundy Productions Pty., The Australian Film Commission

Director

Paul Eddey

Description

Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take leave from her job. Caught between her ex-lover and a colleague who wants to marry her, Melanie must find a solution or an alternative to her problem. When she falls in love with a woman, she questions the value of the traditional value unit.