Jock Petersen (1974) — drama film. Directed by Tim Burstall. Starring Jack Thompson, Jacki Weaver, Wendy Hughes, John Ewart. This page maps 3 characters and 2 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A former athlete's descent into academic and romantic chaos, culminating in violence and regression.
Drama · 3.8/10 · 107 min · 1974
Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor's beautiful lecturer wife in her office. Their get-togethers there are quite rootine. The professor is also seeing one of his students after class. Petersen and the professor's wife talk about having a baby. But then she accepts an appointment to Oxford, provoking a rage in Petersen...
