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Bill Bennett (writer)
Release Date:
17 October 2002 (Australia)
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Being filthy rich is a dirty business. more
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'The Nugget' looks at how instant wealth suddenly changes the lives of three working class men - not necessarily for the better, but always with hilarious consequences. full summary | add synopsis
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Disappointingly flat, unfunny comedy...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Eric Bana | ... | Lotto |
 | Stephen Curry | ... | Wookie |
| Dave O'Neil | ... | Sue |
| Belinda Emmett | ... | Cheryl |
| Peter Moon | ... | Ratner |
| Vince Colosimo | ... | Dimitri |
| Max Cullen | ... | Wally |
| Karen Pang | ... | Moon Choo |
 | Sallyanne Ryan | ... | Darlene |
| Alan Brough | ... | Jurgen |
 | Jeff Truman | ... | George |
| Chris Haywood | ... | Doug |
| Jean Kittson | ... | Joyce |
| Glenda Linscott | ... | Bunny |
| Jane Hall | ... | Lucy |
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Rated R for language.
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Canada:97 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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References "Crocodile Hunter" (1996)
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...from thriller director Bennett, complete with try-hard oneliners (some of which come off) and a desperately thin story that is helped along by a top-notch comedy cast. If it's ever released internationally – which seems likely, due to Bana's top billing – it will fare even worse than here, as much of the humour relies on the presumption that we know Bana from his television comedy days, Curry from The Castle and utility comedian `Big Dave' O'Neil. Emmett and the other female actors do the best with what they've got, which is absolutely nothing – the film is, in many ways, a throwback to the nostalgic 1980s, complete with non-white ethnic stereotypes that fail spectacularly, and an unconvincing reliance on mateship as the central motif. After a woeful beginning, the main offender being Max Cullen's ridiculously lame voiceover, the film picks up somewhat in the middle before the mateship bond between the three lead characters is tested and plot takes over, and it fizzles towards a predictable and dissatisfying anticlimax. With Bennett at the helm, though, you wouldn't expect it to be all bad, and it's not – some of the one-liners do work (you've made it when you order your second Mongolian hotpot), and the bush scenery is typically breathtaking, though strangely underaccentuated. In the comic tradition of The Castle, it's easy to see where the Working Dog film would have gone if it hadn't have been so damned funny! Hopefully Bennett won't give up on comedy, but it's one hell of a gap between this and success. R:5/10.