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A comedy thriller, set in 1980s' Sydney, about a rookie journalist from the country who finds himself at the centre of his own story – accompanied by a serial killer.
Daryl Dee is a rookie reporter who joins Fever FM, a music radio station in Sydney, Australia in 1981. He is a country boy, but has been to university. He is far from a sophisticated city worker and enjoys playing the pump organ when he can find one.
Dee is hired by the station’s American owner, the bombastic Freddie Funker who says “th” instead of “f”. On the first morning Dee is ignored in the newsroom. He attends the station’s ratings where he gets drunk, then goes to the beach with Terri, the deputy music director, Max, the top reporter, and Brett, the engineer.
Daryl, after getting friendly with Terri in the backseat of the car, rides a surfboard, then falls off, literally on to an exremely fat man from a boat who has apparently committed suicide.
They identify the body as Government communications minister John Rudge who had attended the party the night before. Brett and Terri flee the beach. A shot is fired from a house near the beach. It kills a dog which has come to investigate. Max insists they take the body back to his place, so he can have an exclusive story. He files a story back to the newsroom telling Sydney about the discovery of a dead body on the beach.
Greg Day, or G. Day, a very annoyed hitman arrives. He helps them to take the body back to Max’s place. Greg wants to be part of news and shows how infatuated he is with Fever FM and everyone who works there.
An Avon lady Bel arrives. She is excited about the Royal Wedding with Charles and Diana which is due to take place that evening. She is less excited about the sight of a dead body on the living room floor. Greg asks Max to find him a saw from the garden shed. You can guess the rest. Or can you?
Daryl Dee is a rookie reporter who joins Fever FM, a music radio station in Sydney, Australia in 1981. He is a country boy, but has been to university. He is far from a sophisticated city worker and enjoys playing the pump organ when he can find one.
Dee is hired by the station’s American owner, the bombastic Freddie Funker who says “th” instead of “f”. On the first morning Dee is ignored in the newsroom. He attends the station’s ratings where he gets drunk, then goes to the beach with Terri, the deputy music director, Max, the top reporter, and Brett, the engineer.
Daryl, after getting friendly with Terri in the backseat of the car, rides a surfboard, then falls off, literally on to an exremely fat man from a boat who has apparently committed suicide.
They identify the body as Government communications minister John Rudge who had attended the party the night before. Brett and Terri flee the beach. A shot is fired from a house near the beach. It kills a dog which has come to investigate. Max insists they take the body back to his place, so he can have an exclusive story. He files a story back to the newsroom telling Sydney about the discovery of a dead body on the beach.
Greg Day, or G. Day, a very annoyed hitman arrives. He helps them to take the body back to Max’s place. Greg wants to be part of news and shows how infatuated he is with Fever FM and everyone who works there.
An Avon lady Bel arrives. She is excited about the Royal Wedding with Charles and Diana which is due to take place that evening. She is less excited about the sight of a dead body on the living room floor. Greg asks Max to find him a saw from the garden shed. You can guess the rest. Or can you?
