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Overview

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Director:
Mark Joffe
Writers:
Max Dann (written by) and
Andrew Knight (written by)
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Release Date:
July 1992 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
An everyday story about loyalty, betrayal, lust and footwear. more
Plot:
An expert on productivity shows wacky workers in 1966 Australia how to run their moccasin factory like clockwork, despite laying off more than half the workforce. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 7 nominations more
User Comments:
Film captures the working and management class cultures more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Anthony Hopkins ... Errol Wallace

Ben Mendelsohn ... Carey
Alwyn Kurts ... Mr. Ball
Bruno Lawrence ... Robert, Carey's Father
John Walton ... Jerry Finn
Rebecca Rigg ... Cheryl Ball

Toni Collette ... Wendy Robinson

Russell Crowe ... Kim Barry
Angela Punch McGregor ... Caroline Wallace
Daniel Wyllie ... Frank Fletcher
John Flaus ... Gordon
Gary Adams ... Kevin

Jeff Truman ... Ron
Toni Lamond ... Mrs. Lorna Ball
Jillian Murray ... Ophelia, Carey's Mom (as Jillian Murray)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Efficiency Expert (USA)
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Runtime:
Argentina:97 min | UK:95 min | USA:85 min
Country:
Australia
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby

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Goofs:
Anachronisms: Carey walks past two railway carriages with the word 'VLine' on them. VLine is the trading name of the State Transport Authority. It was formed in 1983 when the Victorian Railways was split into two organisations. However the film is set in the 1960s and Vline did not exist at this time. more
Quotes:
[Carey's little brother sees him writing a poem.]
Carey's Brother: Hee-hee-hee. Who's Cheryl?
Carey: No one you'd know. A model.
Carey's Brother: "I wake up with the sun, bright and new. I listen to the sun, and the early morning dew." Dew doesn't make any noise.
Carey: What? Look, it's my poem, I can write what I like.
Carey's Brother: Just trying to help. If I was you I'd stick to drawing.
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Movie Connections:
Features "My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?" (1967) more
Soundtrack:
Deep In the Heart of Texas more

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7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Film captures the working and management class cultures, 8 August 1999
9/10
Author: polyglot-4 from USA

As an American who lived in Australia for about 3 years, I found that this film captured a lot of "Australianisms" that are hard to pinpoint, but are definitely from the Australian culture and different than the US culture. Probably the most noticeable to me was the worker vs management mentality that is so much more exaggerated in Oz. One of the most ironic things I found about their culture was how much they protested that, unlike England, there was no class system down under. But, to me as an outsider it seemed very class driven but instead of upper and lower classes they were blue collar and white collar.

Overall a touching film which I always wonder how much is going right over the heads of Americans.

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