A Sting in the Tale

I have to agree with the other review here (from 10 years ago).

This is quite a passable political comedy-drama, but unfortunately looks more like a television show of the era, done on a limited budget, with limited amounts available for costumes, sets, outdoor scenes etc.

That said, the story of an honest young woman who outwits all the scheming, sexist, patronising men around her, is reasonably well told and makes sense.

Diane Craig is convincing as Diane Lane who runs rings around all the male bastards she encounters. The men around her are mostly self-serving, ambitious and dishonest, from her cheating boyfriend (Gary Day), to the media baron (called Roger Monroe but obviously meant to represent Rupert Murdoch) (Ted Hodgeman), to the almost comically incompetent Prime Minister (Don Barker).

It's entertaining enough, and quite interesting from a historical point of view to consider the issues that were important back in the 1980s.