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Peter Weir (writer)
Release Date:
November 1981 (USA) 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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One of My Personal Favorites more (18 total)
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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The Mad Plumber (Australia) (video title)
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76 min
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1.75 : 1 more
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USA:Not Rated | Norway:15 (video premiere) | Australia:M | UK:12
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It took three weeks to shoot the picture. more
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the last shot of the plumber playing his guitar, there is music but he isn't moving his hands. more
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Referenced in The Killing Floor (2007) more
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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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