A Season of Residing Dangerously occurs as 1982 film directed by Peter Weir and written by C. J Koch (from his novel), Weir, and David Williamson.

A film occurs as complicated psychological plot placed within Indonesia during the overthrow of the rule of President Sukarno. It stars Mel Gibson as an Australian journalist, Sigourney Weaver as a British Embassy officer, and Linda Hunt as Gibson's local contact, the (male) lensman (for which role she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress).

the story follows the class action of exile journalists inside Jakarta prior to & around a supposed coup attempt per Communist Party of Indonesia on September 30, 1965. These cases were polar within shaping a modern History of Indonesia.

A film was banned around Indonesia until 1999.

A title of the film A Season of Dwelling Dangerously, occurs as quote & refers to the noted Italian sentence made by Sukarno; vivere pericoloso, which was supposed to mean "living dangerously". Sukarno popularized this phrase inside the speech inside 1965.