Red Ruby, Queen of Wooloomooloo, retired after 15 years in the 'business' when she receives an unusual inheritance - but inheritances are not always what they seem.
, 1h20 GenresComédie, Musical ThèmesMusique ActeursCarmen Duncan Note61% Although most of the film is set in Rotorua, it actually starts out in Sydney. Furthermore, the hero and heroine, Gary Wallace and Judy Beech, are both Australian. Gary wants desperately to play in Howard Morrison's band at a big concert in Rotorua, so he sells his drums to pay for the plane ticket to New Zealand, and Morrison turns out to be on the same flight. Judy, a Marilyn Monroe blonde, is also on that flight, en route to Rotorua with her mother for a holiday. Aside from Gary and Judy and Howard Morrison himself, the fourth major role is filled out by the obligatory villain, William, a rival drummer who has the job Gary seeks, and who also sets off in hot pursuit of Judy. At the end of the film, while Gary wins Judy and plays in the concert, William is, quite literally, marooned in the middle of Lake Rotorua.
, 22minutes Réalisé parAdam Elliot OrigineAustralie GenresDrame, Comédie, Comédie dramatique, Animation ActeursGeoffrey Rush, John Flaus Note78% L'histoire raconte la vie de Harvek Milos Krumpetzki, né en Pologne en 1922. Lorsque éclate la seconde Guerre mondiale, il émigre à Spotswood en Australie en tant que réfugié, et change son nom en Harvie Krumpet. Malgré une vie marquée par la malchance (il est atteint du syndrome de Tourette, il est touché par la foudre, et perd l'un de ses testicules), Harvie conserve un optimisme à toute épreuve. Il épouse une infirmière et ils élèvent une fille adoptive, un enfant de la thalidomide. Dans l'une des scènes clés du film, Harvie est assis dans un parc près d'une statue du poète latin Horace et entend l'injonction : « carpe diem », qui le pousse à apporter des changements dans sa vie. Il devient naturiste et s'engage pour les droits des animaux.
, 1h40 Réalisé parGeorge Ogilvie ThèmesLa mer, Transport ActeursBryan Brown, Rebecca Smart, Noni Hazlehurst, Ray Meagher Note74% The plot revolves around an itinerant rural worker and fighter named Macauley —sometimes described as a “swagman” or “swaggie” who unexpectedly finds himself taking responsibility for his child. The film contrasts the harshness of Australian masculinity with a parent-child relationship.
, 1h35 GenresThriller, Action, Aventure, Policier ThèmesLa mer, Transport ActeursCarmen Duncan, Red Symons, Shane Briant, Nicholas Eadie, Annie Jones, Simone Buchanan Note56% Two IRA hitmen are pursuing Riley (Michael Aitkens), because he killed one of their number. Riley is pursuing Eve (Carmen Duncan), a German former terrorist, who is on the run in Australia with her teenage daughter Chrissie (Annie Jones) and the proceeds of an old bank robbery in Germany. The two IRA hitmen, accompanied by an angry biker, track Eve and Chrissie to the Barossa Valley. Riley arrives on the scene in time for an explosive finale.