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Summary
Australian truck driver Jack has written a successful romance novel under the name of his best friend's girlfriend - Ruby Vale. When a publisher arrives to sign up 'Ruby', complications arise.
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Critics vs audiences
Audiences a little warmer than critics (+6)
Critics 57Audiences 63GoodWatch 52
Metascore57
IMDb6.4
Audience score61%
Running time
1 h 36 min
A typical length for comedies
typical 10096Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 5 countries, rent or buy in 3 more
Released
1999
March 25, 1999
27 years ago
Genres
ComedyRomanceLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- Australia
Directing · 1
- Antony J. Bowman Director, Writer
Production · 3
- John Winter Producer
- Lance W. Reynolds Producer
- Faith Martin Casting
Camera · 1
- David Burr Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Veronika Jenet Editor
Sound · 2
- Burkhard von Dallwitz Original Music Composer
- Keith Thomas Musician
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