Goodbye Paradise is a 1983 Australian film directed by Carl Schultz starring Ray Barrett.

On Queensland's Gold Coast, a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey, is writing a long-delayed book exposing police corruption.

He encounters a series of unusual characters, including members of the Queensland seccession movement and a cult led by Stacey's old army friend Todd.

"[4] They always envisioned Ray Barrett in the lead role as the private eye Stacey and the three of them got some money from the NSW Film Corporation to go up to Surfers Paradise for a week to research and write the script.

[5]According to Lawrence, he was more interested in a genre piece whereas Ellis tried to incorporate his personal politics, but the collaboration was a successful one and the two men would work again many times in the following years.

"[7] Bob Ellis claimed the producer wanted to cast Max Gillies in the lead instead of Barrett.

[1] In September 1982, 12 months after filming completed, it was announced the movie had found a distributor, Filmways - with a release planned for November.

[4] The film was nominated for 4 AFI Awards, won in the Best Actor in the Lead Role (Ray Barrett) and Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted (Bob Ellis, Denny Lawrence) categories.

"[19] Bob Ellis and Denny Lawrence wrote a sequel for the film called Goodbye Adelaide.

The plot involved Stacy finishing the book he is writing in the first movie and visiting the Adelaide Festival to promote it, where he is caught up in an attempted defection by a Russian poet.