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Director:

Peter Weir

Writer:

Peter Weir (writer)

Contact:

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Release Date:

November 1981 (USA) more

Genre:

Horror | Thriller more

Tagline:

The Australian New Wave Has Come more

Plot:

A doctor's wife is terrorised by a strange plumber who is working in her house. full summary | add synopsis

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Scott Hicks: The Hollywood Interview
 (From The Hollywood Interview. 28 September 2009, 12:56 PM, PDT)

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Cast

  (Credited cast)

Judy Morris ... Jill Cowper
Ivar Kants ... Max (the plumber)
Robert Coleby ... Brian Cowper
Candy Raymond ... Meg
Henri Szeps ... David Medavoy
Yomi Abioudan ... Dr. Matu (as Yomi Abiodun)
Beverley Roberts ... Dr. Japari
Bruce Rosen ... Dr. Don Felder
Daphne Grey ... Caretaker's wife
Meme Thorne ... Anna (as Mémé Thorne)
David Burchell ... Professor Cato
Paul Sonkkila ... Reg the cleaner
Pam Sanders ... Ananas
Rick Hart ... Detective
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

The Mad Plumber (Australia) (video title)
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Runtime:

76 min

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.75 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Not Rated | Norway:15 (video premiere) | Australia:M | UK:12


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

It took three weeks to shoot the picture. more

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the last shot of the plumber playing his guitar, there is music but he isn't moving his hands. more

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Killing Floor (2007) more


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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
One of My Personal Favorites, 9 August 2004
Author: schadenfreude2 from Michigan, USA

Hearing about this great little film from many people, I spent tireless hours on retail sites tracking a VHS copy down. Finally I caught a cheap copy on Half.com and it came several days later, (cut to one month later, when Weir's "Cars that Ate Paris" debuted on easily-accessible DVD format with "The Plumber" as a double feature. Go figure.) But I sat down to watch it and proceeded to laugh for quite some time.

The story is basically about this Aussie anthropologist studying Aboriginal tribes as her boring nutritionist husband is constantly talking shop. She's constantly left to her solitude and values her privacy, which makes it all the more irritating when a strange plumber invades her life. Somewhat threatening and somewhat a misunderstood doof, this plumber spends hours holed up in her bathroom doing nothing but lounging around, hammering shower tiles, writing folk songs and ripping pipes from the walls.

It's a precursor to "The Cable Guy," but don't let that discourage you, (I liked "Cable Guy" myself). It's funny as hell and has a great ending. I'll even forgive it for the nutritionist's ponderous subplot that goes nowhere. It's only 79 minutes--whaddaya got to lose?

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