Christine (1983 film) choke on a hamburger. Christine locks the doors and Arnie cannot get in to help Leigh, but Leigh manages to pull the lock open and is saved when a man in the car next to them administers the Heimlich maneuver. Sure that Christine is jealous of her, she vows never to get into the car again and urges Arnie to get rid of it. She and Arnie break up when he refuses to even consider this. Angry with Arnie over being expelled after a confrontation in shop class, school bully Buddy Repperton vandalizes Christine with the help of his gang.
Christine Abrahams Christine Abrahams Christine Abrahams was a gallery director and major supporter of contemporary Australian art in Melbourne since the 1970s. Artist Lenton Parr said of Christine that she valued art "as a gift to the spirit and a source of pleasure and enlightenment." She was Manager of Powell Street Gallery between 1976 and 1980 (the lessees were Melbourne solicitor Harry Curtis and a Caulfield doctor, David Rosenthal), and a Co-Director of Axiom Gallery from 1980 to 1982. Christine founded the eponymous Christine Abrahams Gallery on 12 February 1983 at 27 Gipps Street Richmond, an inner, once-industrial, suburb of Melbourne, in