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Loose Enz - The Good Samaritan

Television (Full Length) – 1982

This two-hander is one of the heavier editions of the Loose Enz anthology series. After midnight, a woman (Heather Lindsay) rifles through her prescription drugs then smashes a glass against an Egon Schiele print hanging on her wall (with Laurie Anderson-inspired blips scoring the scene). Shortly afterwards a married colleague (Peter Vere-Jones) turns up, whom she's forgotten she's phoned. The titular samaritan finds himself drawn into the midlife crisis of a woman under the influence: from Yevtushenko to a bitter waltz to Split Enz's 'I Got You'.

[I’m a] house-trained anarchist: one of the penalties of middle-age.
– Alec (Peter Vere-Jones)

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