Film

The Alternative

1977 · 1h 14m · Drama · TV Movie

As sensitive as it is provocative...

IMDb

6.6

Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take leave from her job. Caught between her ex-lover and a colleague who wants to marry her, Melanie must find a solution or an alternative to her problem. When she falls in love with a woman, she questions the value of the traditional value unit.

Wendy Hughes

Melanie Hilton

Carla Hoogeveen

Linda

Tony Bonner

Peter

Alwyn Kurts

Doherty

Don Reid

Surgeon

Betty Lucas

Melanie's Mother

Ken Goodlet

Melanie's Father

Mary Mackay

Mrs. Millbank

Robert Bruning

Photographer (uncredited)

Anne Haddy

Helen (uncredited)

Jackie Rees

June (uncredited)

Peter Adams

Noel Denning

• Paul EddeyDirector
• Tony MorphettWriter
• Robert BruningProducer · Story
• Russell BoydDirector of Photography
• Trevor EllisEditor

Release date

April 20, 1977

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 14m

Genres

Drama, TV Movie