Stir is a 1984

1984 in film

-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....

 Australian film

Cinema of Australia

Cinema of Australia, more commonly referred to as the Australian film industry, refers to the system of production, distribution, and exhibition of films in Australia. Film production commenced in Australia in 1906 with the production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, the earliest feature film made...

 directed by Stephen Wallace

Stephen Wallace

Stephen Wallace is an Australian director. His 1986 film For Love Alone was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.He was awarded the A.M...

 in his feature directorial debut. The prison film was written by Bob Jewson, based upon his own experience while incarcerated as the actual prison riot at Bathurst Correctional Complex

Bathurst Correctional Complex

Bathurst Correctional Complex is an Australian prison located 3 kilometres west of Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. The current structure incorporates buildings constructed in 1888. The Complex serves as a reception prison for western NSW...

 in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons. we. The film was shot in Clare Valley

Clare Valley

The Clare Valley is one of Australia's oldest wine regions, best known for Riesling wines. It lies in the Mid North of South Australia, approximately 120 km north of Adelaide. The valley runs north-south, with Main North Road as the main thoroughfare....

, Gladstone

Gladstone, South Australia

Gladstone is a small rural town in the Mid North of South Australia in the approach to the lower Flinders Ranges. At the 2006 census, Gladstone had a population of 629....

 and the Flinders Ranges

Flinders Ranges

Flinders Ranges is the largest mountain range in South Australia, which starts approximately north west of Adelaide. The discontinuous ranges stretch for over from Port Pirie to Lake Callabonna...

 in South Australia. It premiered at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival

1980 Cannes Film Festival

The 33rd Cannes Film Festival was held on May 9-23. The showing of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker is interrupted by an electricians strike.- Jury :*Kirk Douglas *Ken Adam *Robert Benayoun *Veljko Bulajić...

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Principal cast

Actor	Role
Bryan Brown Bryan Brown Bryan Neathway Brown, AM is an Australian actor.-Early life:Brown was born in Sydney, the son of John Brown and Molly Brown, a house cleaner who worked as a pianist in the early days of the Langshaw School of Ballet. He grew up in the south-western Sydney suburb of Bankstown and began working at...	China Jackson
Max Phipps Max Phipps Max Phipps was an Australian actor, known for a number of roles in theatre, films and television during the 1960s until the end of the 1990s....	Norton
Garry Waddell	Dave
Phil Motherwell	Alby
Robert Noble Robert Noble Robert Laing Noble, was a Canadian physician who was involved in the discovery of vinblastine.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received his M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1934 and a Ph.D...	Riley

Critical reception

David O'Connell of In Film Australia:

DVD availability

The DVD is available from Umbrella Entertainment and contains a new 16:9 aspect ratio transfer, a 50 minute interview feature with key cast and crew, as well as the original theatrical trailer.