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The FJ Holden
The FJ Holden is a 1977 Australian film directed by Michael Thornhill. "The FJ Holden" is a snapshot of the life of young teenage men in Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia in the 1970s and deals with the characters' difficulty in reconciling mateship with respect for a girlfriend.
Debi Enker in "Australian Cinema" comments: ""The FJ Holden" presents the suburbs as a cultural and spiritual desert. It is a place where regular bouts with the bottle are the only antidote for
term "Westie" was a creation of the 1960s and 1970s as young, working families were encouraged westward into the newly built, rather austere public and private housing subdivisions on Sydney's urban fringe. It was a term of division and derision, and became shorthand for a population considered lowbrow, coarse and lacking education and cultural refinement. Immortalised in the 1977 social realist film, "The FJ Holden", by Michael Thornhill, the classic Westie was a male of Anglo-Celtic origin who lived in the vast, homogenous