The film stars Mel Gibson as Australian journalist Guy Hamilton, and Sigourney Weaver as British Embassy officer Jill Bryant. It also stars Linda Hunt as a Chinese-Australian man with dwarfism, Billy Kwan, Hamilton's local photographer contact, a role for which Hunt won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. [6] .

The Year of Living Dangerously: Directed by Peter Weir. With Linda Hunt, Mel Gibson, Bembol Roco, Domingo Landicho. A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.

Guy Hamilton, the journalist (Mel Gibson), is a lanky, Kennedyesque, chain-smoking young man who has a fix on excitement. He doesn’t know the ropes in Indonesia, but he learns them quickly enough, from a dwarfish character named Billy Kwan.

A hot-shot Australian reporter covering the turmoil of revolution in Indonesia, gets involved with a sexy British attaché.

In The Year of Living Dangerously, Mel Gibson stars as journalist Guy Hamilton. Sent to Indonesia, a country at the brink of civil war between the dictator and the communists, he is tasked with covering the events from the capital for the Australian Broadcasting Services.

A newsman on the rise wrestles with a choice: report a coming coup d'etat to the world or betray and destroy the two people who love him.

A young Mel Gibson anchors a fascinating look at the life of a journalist looking for the great war-era news story. Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2011

Gibson has never been more magnetic as Guy, and the captivating Weaver exudes sensuality and mystery. Yet actress Hunt is the revelation in the gender-bending role of Billy — it won her an Oscar. Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Kerr, Linda Hunt Peter Weir