Australian heist comedy, with a severely split personality. The characters have their feet rooted in working-class reality: Colin Friels, who looks like a cross between Sam Neill and young Alan Bates, is perhaps a bit precious as a social simpleton and technological genius, but John Hargreaves is simultaneously dangerous, pathetic, and funny as just an averagely thick-skulled small-time crook, with a punk haircut, tattoos on both his arms, and a cigarette stuck at all times in the corner of his mouth, except when on his lower lip as an unrolled paper. The former character's homemade inventions (an economy car that divides in two, ambulatory trash canisters, and the like) infuse the realistic milieu with lethal levels of whimsy. Written by David Parker; directed by (Parker's wife) Nadia Tass. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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