A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 11 nominations total
Storyline
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- TriviaThe family was named Kerrigan so the filmmakers could borrow trucks from an actual tow-truck company, Kerrigan's Towing.
- GoofsWhen the characters have their final appeal to the High Court of Australia, it is before 5 Justices. However in reality, when a constitutional dispute is brought before the High Court, all 7 Justices will sit (known as the Full Bench).
- Quotes
Darryl Kerrigan: This is going straight to the pool room.
- Alternate versionsAfter some mixed sneak previews, distributor Miramax ordered some changes to the film's dialogue for the USA release and a new music score. The dialogue changes included replacing the words:
- 'cladding' with 'siding'
- 'petrol station' with 'gas station'
- 'rissoles' with 'meatloaf'
- 'tertiary education' with 'college education'
- 'a Mini and a Vauxhaull' with 'a Geo and a Volksy'
- 'rabbit on' with 'babble on'
- 'trolley' with 'baggage cart'
- 'caravan' with 'mobile home'
- 'Camira' with 'Corolla'
- 'Hey Hey It's Saturday' with 'Funniest Home Videos' and 'Gong him, Red!' with 'Doggy breath!'
- 'Esky' with 'cooler'
- 'punnet' with 'tub'
- 'baby capsule' with 'baby carriage'
- ConnectionsEdited into Terror Nullius (2018)
- SoundtracksBaby, Now That I've Found You
(1967)
Performed by Alison Krauss
Written by Roger Nichols (uncredited) and Tony Macaulay (uncredited)
Courtesy of Larriken Entertainment Pty Ltd
Album: Now That I've Found You
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This movie was quite a surprise, and a pleasant one at that. To be honest, I would probably never have rented nor watched this movie if broadcast, based on the amateurish look of the video cover and the ads. My reaction to it, before seeing it was that it was another movie slapped together to piggyback onto the success of another movie with the same actor/director/theme etc.etc. while the fire was hot. But, a friend borrowed it from the library, and the video was sitting there, so I decided to watch it. Was I happily surprised! The one liners make this movie, if you pay attention and catch them all, this movie has many a belly laugh. It was true to life too, I KNOW these people, whether they come from Australia or Arkansas, they're out there, and this is their reality.
Remove the accents, put a few non working appliances in the front yard, a car up on cinder blocks, and you have the American version. A very nice surprise for me, if you like humor that doesn't insult your intellect, you'll like this movie. Many a memorable line in it too.
I would disagree with others who have commented on the profanity in this movie. In this case there is very little profanity for profanity's sake, it's usually very well timed and ads to the storyline, like when he passes the barrister the note in court.
Remove the accents, put a few non working appliances in the front yard, a car up on cinder blocks, and you have the American version. A very nice surprise for me, if you like humor that doesn't insult your intellect, you'll like this movie. Many a memorable line in it too.
I would disagree with others who have commented on the profanity in this movie. In this case there is very little profanity for profanity's sake, it's usually very well timed and ads to the storyline, like when he passes the barrister the note in court.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $877,621
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $29,452
- May 9, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $889,664
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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