Unfinished Business is a 1985 Australian film directed by Bob Ellis and starring John Clayton, Michele Fawdon, and Norman Kaye.
[3] Geoff, a journalist in his mid 40s, returns to Australia from 15 years abroad, leaving behind him in the US a failed marriage and three children.
Bob Ellis originally wanted to make a film in the style of My Dinner with Andre starring Patrick Cook and John Clarke called Business Lunch.
Clarke would play an ABC executive about to tell Cook he was going to be fired and dialogue would be largely improvised.
"We had to spend the money so the producer, Rebel Penfold Russell, asked me to come up with another small idea with "business" in the title.
"[4] Ellis wrote a script in three days (spread over three weeks) and constructed roles specifically for John Clayton and Michelle Fawdon.
The frustrating stop-start love-making Geoff and Maureen indulge in as they go about graphing his sperm count and her temperature to maximise their chances of conceiving is also something I've been through.
"[4] The film was rehearsed and shot in eleven days at three locations - Ellis' houses in Wahroonga and Palm Beach and his flat in Bellevue Hill.
I've always been very fond of it, particularly that lovely kind of marriage with those two gumnut babies, Michelle Fawdon and John Clayton.