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Goodbye Paradise

  • Drama

July 21, 1983 (AU)

1h 59m

Stacey lives in paradise... and paradise is in big trouble.

The plot centres on Queensland's Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey writes a book exposing police corruption, does an investigation resulting in 2 murders, exposes a religious cult and watches the army begin a military coup.

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