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Writers:
Piers Davies (writer)
Roger Horrocks (writer)
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In small-town New Zealand, the gung-ho town council decides that what the town needs to put it on the map is a massage parlour... more | add synopsis
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Fine New Zealand film.... more (1 total)

Cast

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Ken Blackburn ... Bob Warner
Deryn Cooper ... Sandra Ray
Alan Jervis ... Vic Shaw
Grant Tilly ... Phil Barrett
Bill Johnson ... Mike Campbell
Arthur Wright ... Les Simpson

Kevin J. Wilson ... Policeman
Glenis Levestam ... Alice Barrett
Heather Lindsay ... Rita Warner
Christine Lloyd ... Waitress
Peter Rowell ... Youth
James McFarlane ... Boxing Manager (as Jim Macfarlane)
Wendy Macfarlane ... Motel Manageress
Mike Bajko
Renee Hall
Bob Harvey ... Stephen Douglas
Monty Betham ... Himself
Alesana Sua ... Herself
Beaver and the Country Players ... Themselves
Bunny Walters ... Herself
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Directed by
Geoff Steven 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Piers Davies  writer
Roger Horrocks  writer
Geoff Steven  writer
R.J. Williams  dialogue (as Robert J. Williams)

Produced by
John Maynard .... producer
 
Original Music by
Jan Preston 
 
Cinematography by
Leon Narbey 
 
Film Editing by
Simon Sedgley 
 
Art Direction by
Ron Highfield 
 
Makeup Department
Lesley Vanderwalt .... makeup artist
 
Production Management
Sue May .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Suzi Pointon .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Graham Morris .... sound recordist
Don Reynolds .... sound mixer
Lee Tamahori .... boom operator
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Paul Leach .... camera operator
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Lesley Vanderwalt .... wardrobe
 
Other crew
Mike Bajko .... caterer
 

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110 min
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Colour (Gevacolor)
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Fine New Zealand film...., 14 October 2005
6/10
Author: biker-1 from new zealand

This was made back when Holdens and Fords used to line the streets of New Zealand towns. Ken Blackburn - as business and community leader Bob Warner - is the film's major merit ; an insidiously naive opportunist who wheels and deals beneath a cloak of civic respectability. Trouble brews when Sandra (Deryn Cooper) arrives from the big city to take up a health massage job at the men's gym. She's been 'round the block a few times and won't take no nonsense from the local clowns, least of all Bob, who in between working bees and maintaining his Stepford wife, fancies on expanding Sandra's job description. Skin Deep is a blackly comic and insightful drama surrounding the self-serving social inadequacies of a group of men in a small town. Produced when the New Zealand film industry was in it's infancy, Skin Deep remains one of country's most memorable films.

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