ABC: A Valentine to football

Filming starts on the new ABC TV telemovie 'Valentine’s Day', as a famous Aussie Rules footballer fallen on hard times. Written by Peter Temple, it stars Rhys Muldoon.
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Filming starts this week in Melbourne on the new ABC TV telemovie ‘Valentine’s Day’, a feelgood film to make us all believe it’s possible to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

Valentine’s Day tells the story of Ben Valentine who drifts into a small Victorian country town of Rushworth. He quickly finds himself in trouble with the law. As a famous Aussie Rules footballer fallen on hard times, he is given 200 hours of community service coaching the town’s ‘no-hoper’ football team. But is he in fact who he seems to be?

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