Antbdrug film popular
About 2300 people attended the premiere of the locallymade anti-drug film. - ‘My Friends ' are Dying,” in Christchurch on Saturday evening. / It had been /intended to have only one showing, but between. 7QO and 800: people wqpe still lined up ' outside when’ the' renovated?auditorium in. Majestic .House had .been- filled,', said ' the. producer, Mr Ray Comfort. - -.-“ It was a .)for bigger tdr'hout than we expe'ctedMWe decided-that we had to have
a second showing,” he said. • The film, mainly about the deaths of -five'yojuhg people through the* of • illicit drugs, '.also - includes , footage of a gang fight in Cathedral Square. .- Members of/ both gangs involved had - attefided the premiere, and had been seated "apart from : each other,” said Mr Comfort. "There was shouting when the fight bit started, but I suppose that was to be expected,” he said. The film will open in Auckland next.
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