Going Down is a 1982 Australian film about young people living in a share house.David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p. 144.
The film's one-liner reads: "Four women friends leave behind the feral days of youth after a night of uncontrolled excess in inner-city Sydney during the early 1980s."
Cast Tracy Mann as Karli Vera Plevnik as Jane Julie Barry as Jackie Moira MacLaine-Cross as Ellen David Argue as Greg / Trixie Esben Storm as Michael Ian Gilmour as Shadow Danny Adcock as Supporter Mercia Deane-Johns as Ned
Release The film was self-distributed and ran for 14 weeks in Sydney but performed poorly in Melbourne.Haydn Keenan, 'Going Down', AACMI, January 2008 accessed 13 October 2012 In 2025, Muscle Distribution, as part of its first acquisition and theatrical release, restored the film in 4K for its first-ever U.S. run, premiering at BAM Rose Cinemas in New York.https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/aussie-indie-going-down-restoration-bam-muscle-distribution-1235104644/
The film was officially rereleased in May 2026 in Australia by Smart St Films https://www.filmink.com.au/reviews/going-down/
Reception "A remarkable landmark in Australian independent filmmaking. Unfortunately, it is a landmark that few people noticed.” - Marcus Breen, Australian Film 1978 - 1992 (1993).
"One of the first films to show the world the true gritty underside of Australian life, Going Down has become a cult classic for its realistic depiction of Sydney in the 1980s, a portrayal decidedly at odds with the sun, surf, sand and barbies of Australia's tourism campaigns." - Melbourne International Film Festival 2009 https://miff.com.au/festival-archive/films/13404/going-down-1982-m
In the Sydney Morning Herald in 2011 Mark Swayer wrote "no film I've seen has better captured the chaotic heartbeat of the young sensation-seeker's Sydney."
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External links
Going Down at Australian Screen Online Going Down at Street Smart Films Going Down at Oz Movies