Tony Petersen (Jack Thompson) is a former star footballer now working as an electrician. He’s married to Susie (Jacki Weaver) and they have two young daughters. In an effort to improve himself, Petersen is in his second year of a literature degree course at the local University. His tutor is the pompous Charles Kent (Arthur Dignam) who doesn’t know that Petersen is having an affair with his wife Trish (Wendy Hughes), who taught Petersen the previous year…
When Hexagon Productions was set up, their first production was to be a screenplay known then as either Sittin’ or Campus. It was the first script written directly for the screen by David Williamson, who had previously written Stork. However, due to other commitments, this project was delayed a year and Tim Burstall made Alvin Purple in the meantime. Petersen was Jack Thompson’s first leading role in a feature, after appearing in a supporting role in Wake in Fright (known outside Australia as Outback) and playing a Petersen prototype in “The Family Man”, the Williamson-scripted, David Baker-directed episode of the four-part feature Libido. Helen Morse and Wendy Hughes also made their debuts in this film, though both of them had television experience and in Hughes’s case stage as well.
Petersen’s advertising campaign emphasised the film’s sexual content, which may have paid off at the box office (the film turned a profit) but may also have coloured the local critics’ view of it. Many of them had not forgiven Burstall for Alvin Purple and they gave Petersen a rough ride. However, Petersen is by no means another Alvin-type sex comedy. David Williamson’s dialogue is customarily sharp and often funny, but Petersen is at heart a serious film, a character study and a downbeat one. It tackles class divisions in Australian society head on: Petersen tries and fails to rise above his station and his working-class birds and booze culture, and the only connection possible with those socially above him is a sexual one. Petersen was released in British cinemas after BBFC cuts. A version shortened by ten minutes appeared in the USA under the title ”Jock” Petersen.
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