Director: Michael Carson, Sue Brooks, Paul Moloney, Ray Argall
Writer: Andrew Knight, Deborah Cox, Margaret Kelly, Doug MacLeod
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Country: Australia
Runtime: 60 min, 3 Seasons, 39 episodes
Awards: 30 nominations, 12 wins: 1999 -Silver Logie Most Outstanding Actor (David Wenham); ;
Logie Most Outstanding Drama Series;
2000-Silver Logie Most Outstanding Actress in a Series (Sigrid Thornton)
and others...
"At forty the life is just beginning".
This famous Russian slogan successfully was added to foreign cinematographers' armoury.
But each country tries to give to a plot its own colouring.
Laura Gibson, a successful Australian lawyer, suddenly lost everything: the job, savings, belief in a husband's good name, and - what is more awful - in a conjugal faithfulness. And such a small thing as his son's expulsion from the school seems to be a unimportant makeweight... In utter despair a strong woman tries to build up her life from the beginning, taking a judge place in a quiet seaside town.
To start from nothing is more difficult when we have to what we can compare with..
But she doesn't give a damn, when close at hand is a reliable man and, in addition to that a romantic interest in the person of a laconic, but sensual, enigmatic and ironic, courageous and well-read shark-cowboy with colossal abilities in the field of cookery (however to everything he touches).
This movie unambiguously can be considered as an epochal event in a career of our hero because his Diver Dan has made for the short period of time what David couldn't arrive for previous 12 years of hard work. It isn't so as David wasn't ready to a fantastic national triumph, which has pounced upon him and to the title "the sexiest man alive", which has sticked to him. Only he had enough mind not to remain Diver Dan forever.
As a result after first fifteen series the favourite of the woman's half in Australia dramatically left for the Galapagos Islands, leaving alone beautiful Laura to console herself in the embrace of his successor.
The series has been shown in Australia for some more years, however, in all opinion, nobody else could reach the furore of Wenham's Diver.
Cast:
Sigrid Thornton ...Laura Joy Gibson David Wenham ...Daniel 'Diver Dan' Della Bosca
John Howard ...Robert 'Bob' Jelly
Cassandra Magrath ...Miranda Gibson
Kane McNay ...Rupert Gibson
Kerry Armstrong ... Heather Jelly
Bruce Alexander ...Sgt. Grey
Jill Forster ...Meredith Monahan
Alan Cassel ...Harold Fitzwalter
Tom Long ...Angus Kabiri
Kate Atkinson ...Karen Miller
Kevin Harrington ...Kevin Findlay
Christopher Lyons ...Trevor Findlay
Georgina Naidu ...Phrani Gupta
and others...