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all things Aussie
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Being an Australian, I must admit there is a sense of pride when I see an Aussie tv show/movie. Here are my selections. All comedys


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Movie: Lion ( 2016 )
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
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Movie: A Few Best Men ( 2012 )
A groom and his three best men travel to the Australian outback for a wedding.
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Movie: Red Dog ( 2011 )
Based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.
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Movie: A Few Less Men ( 2017 )
A destination wedding in Australia's Blue Mountains goes horribly wrong when Luke gets drunk and falls off a cliff. Our boys, David , Tom and Graham suddenly find themselves transporting their friend's corpse back to London, where his grieving Aunt is already planning the funeral. When their private jet crash lands in the bush, the boys must carry the body across the treacherous landscape, contend with some fit ravers, a machete wielding mother and a mix up with a giant gold penis, in a race against time to return Luke home. Provided they all survive - intact.
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Movie: Happy Feet ( 2006 )
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
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Movie: Last Cab to Darwin ( 2016 )
When Rex, a Broken Hill cab driver, is told he doesn't have long to live, he sets out on an epic journey to Darwin in a bid to die on his own terms.
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TV Show: Round the Twist ( 1990 )
From the hilarious mind of author Paul Jennings comes the off-the-wall adventures of the Twist family – Tony, Pete, Linda and Bronson – who leave the comforts of the big smoke to live in an old lighthouse in the rugged sea-side village of Port Niranda. But all is not as it seems, and strange things are starting to happen...
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Movie: Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles ( 2001 )
Australian Outback adventurer Mick "Crocodile" Dundee travels to Los Angeles with his young son while his longtime companion suspects foul play at a movie studio.
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Movie: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( 1994 )
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
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Movie: Crocodile Dundee ( 1986 )
An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.
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Movie: Happy Feet Two ( 2011 )
Mumble's son, Erik, is struggling to realize his talents in the Emperor Penguin world. Meanwhile, Mumble and his family and friends discover a new threat their home -- one that will take everyone working together to save them.
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Movie: Kangaroo Jack ( 2003 )
Two childhood friends, a New York hairstylist and a would-be musician, get caught up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go haywire when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
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Movie: The Coca-Cola Kid ( 1985 )
Ex-marine turned Coca-Cola marketing guru Becker is on a mission to boost sales in Australia when he discovers a dry spot in the Outback, where everyone is guzzling homegrown brew - and not a drop of his company's cola.
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Movie: Goddess ( 2013 )
Elspeth Dickens dreams of finding her "voice" despite being stuck in an isolated farmhouse with her twin toddlers. A web-cam becomes her pathway to fame and fortune, but at a price.
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Movie: Green Card ( 1991 )
A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.
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Movie: Crocodile Dundee II ( 1988 )
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
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Movie: Crackerjack ( 2002 )
When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club and prime candidate for a takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the club, in what turns into an epic battle where young meets old, greed meets good and people rise to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances.
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Movie: Joey ( 1997 )
Billy is a boy who is trying to save a baby kangaroo called Joey after its family is captured and taken to Sydney. Billy travels to Sydney to reunite Joey with his family only to discover that Joey is not the only one who needs to be saved. Linda, the young daughter of the U.S. Ambassador joins Billy as they fight to save Joey.
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Movie: Me and My Mates vs. The Zombie Apocalypse ( 2015 )
Three Australian telecom tradesman find themselves trapped in a telephone exchange during the onset of a zombie apocalypse.
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Movie: Brothers' Nest ( 2018 )
Two brothers' murder plans go somewhat sideways in this Australian dark comedy.
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Movie: Danny Deckchair ( 2003 )
Sydneysider Danny Morgan, a simple man who works for a concrete company, is prone to daydreaming to escape his life, those daydreams often of his unique ideas. Of late, those daydreams have been about his and his longtime girlfriend Trudy Dunphy's imminent vacation, a camping trip which Danny has been planning for a year. Eventually learning that Trudy, a real estate agent, lied to get out of the trip to spend time with a famous client, television sportscaster Sandy Upman, is just the latest manifestation that Trudy is drifting away from Danny, who she sees as just a concrete man while she aspires to something or someone more exciting like Sandy. With the vacation now a no-go leaving him with a couple of weeks free with nothing to do but have his mind wander, Danny, with an unexpected windfall of free giant balloons, ponders whether they, filled with helium and tied to a deckchair, would be able to lift him in the deckchair up into the air. Danny's balloon deckchair experiment will have not only a profound effect on him, but that of Glenda Lake of Clarence, she a lonely parking enforcement police officer who has felt lost in life, while Trudy also sees it as another possible restart to her and Danny's relationship in that proverbial fifteen minutes of fame in their lives.
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Movie: Two Hands ( 1999 )
A 19 year old finds himself in debt to a local gangster when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money.
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Movie: A Month of Sundays ( 2016 )
Miserable real estate agent Frank, whose business is failing and his relationship with his family is at an all-time low, meets by chance Sarah, a nice woman who reminds him of his mother. Their friendship starts healing him emotionally.
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Movie: Take Away ( 2003 )
Tony Stilano and Trev Spackneys both own, live over and work in adjoining take-away fish shops in Melbourne. Although they have fallen into a habitual rivalry based on a cause long forgotten, the pair unite when the multinational fast-food outlet "Burgies" unveils a new store directly opposite the twin fish & chips shops.
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Movie: The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee ( 2020 )
Aussie Icon Paul Hogan just wants the quiet life. He lives in Brentwood, California, happy in retirement, content doing the daily crossword and enjoying regular calls from Lucy, his delightful 10-year-old granddaughter in Sydney. So, when his agent drops by to tell him he'll be receiving a knighthood for services to comedy, he is less than impressed by this imposition and much to his agents' chagrin, turns down the offer. Paul attempts to return to his tranquil life but Lucy calls; she has excitedly told kids at her new school that granddad has been offered a Knighthood. They laughed at her. What? Paul realises he needs to get the Knighthood to help her salvage her reputation. After much begging and pleading, his agent reluctantly agrees to call the Palace. The Knighthood is back on. The next six weeks, however, see Hogan's brand totally trashed. Although he is always trying to do the right thing and salvage his quickly diminishing reputation, life is conspiring against him. He's accused of racism when he questions the reality of Will Smith playing his son in Dundee 4. He gets caught brawling with an ill-mannered Dundee impersonator on Hollywood Boulevard. He has to step in for no-show John Travolta at a charity "Grease" duet with Olivia Newton John, which enrages the die-hard "Grease" fans. He finds himself in a car with the world's most unexpected Uber Driver and running from the law, and that's just the beginning. The media are having a field day as the headlines write themselves. With his granddaughter lost for words at his antics and Paul now a regular punchline on talk shows, he has some big decisions to make. Can he please everyone or does family always come first? Paul's simple life has become hell for him - but great fun for us.
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Movie: The Shrimp on the Barbie ( 1990 )
Down on his luck and working in a Mexican restaurant in Australia, an American tourist is hired by a icy heiress to pose as an obnoxious new boyfriend in an attempt to make her father accept her current boyfriend.
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Movie: Now Add Honey ( 2015 )
Normal life implodes for a suburban family when their pop-star cousin comes to stay.
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Movie: Death in Brunswick ( 1991 )
Carl Fitzgerald is down-on-his-luck until he meets Sophie, a beautiful Greek girl. He gets a job as a cook, but accidentally kills fellow worker Mustafa. He turns to his unscrupulous best friend for help and together they attempt to dispose of the body.
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Movie: The Odd Angry Shot ( 1979 )
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of enduring mortar barrages from an unseen enemy. Men die and are crippled in combat by firefights and booby traps, soldiers kill and capture the enemy, gather intelligence and retake ground only to cede it again whilst battling against the bureaucracy and obstinacy of the conventional military hierarchy. In the end they return to civilization, forever changed by their experiences but glad to return to the life they once knew.
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Movie: Starstruck ( 1982 )
Young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family.
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Movie: Puberty Blues ( 1981 )
The mating rituals of two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney.
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Movie: That's Not My Dog! ( 2018 )
THAT'S NOT MY DOG is a joyous comedy that celebrates our love of joke telling. The film centers around the lovable Shane Jacobson (playing himself) who is throwing a party. Invited are the funniest people Shane knows comprising of Australia's biggest stars along with several Australian music legends playing their biggest hits live, right throughout the party. The invite that goes out is clear. Don't bring meat. We'll provide the beer. Just come armed with nothing but the funniest jokes you've ever heard. Shane will take care of the rest. It'll be a night of great friends telling the world's funniest jokes over a beer and BBQ.
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Movie: Doing Time for Patsy Cline ( 1997 )
Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father's sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. He hopes to hitchhike to Sydney Airport where his take-off into a successful country/western singing career will hopefully begin. However, fate and his naivety find him hitchhiking with a psychotic drug thief named Boyd, and Boyd's mesmerising girlfriend, Patsy.
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Movie: The Hard Word ( 2003 )
3 brothers are in and out of prison in connection with heists planned by their lawyer et al. He gets them out for the heists and "looks after" the money and one's wife.
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Movie: Subdivision ( 2009 )
Based on the change a rapidly growing town faces when southern developers take over.
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Movie: Fat Pizza vs. Housos ( 2014 )
After fifteen years, pizza chef Bobo is released from prison. Rent has gone up so the only shop Bobo can afford is in the infamous housing commission suburb of Sunnyvale.
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Movie: Housos vs. Authority ( 2012 )
Shazza Jones is a die-hard resident of "Sunnyvale" the roughest, toughest, meanest area of Australia not yet rejuvenated by the Australian Government. Packed together inside this 'Hope-less' place of low-life, and acutely destitute estate are some of the most inhuman bacterial scourges that are left to their own devices; The Junkies, who will have anything that resembles a valuable meal ticket for their next hit of heroin. The Bikers, headed by Angry (Angry Anderson), whose authority and rule over parts of Sunnyvale echo his warnings to stay out of his way, and then there is Kev, Franky, Shazza and Vanessa - together they make up the estate into what is it today... unbelievable! The story of "Sunnyvale" is told through the experiences and guidance of Shazzas' Uncle Bazza, whose daily life revolves around the slot machines, pub and pleasurable assertions while under the stupor of alcohol. And the story which he tells us is the quest of Shazza scattering her old Mom's ashes of "Aires Rock", which just happens to be one of Australia's National Monuments. In a desperate mission of reaching her Mother before she passes away, Shazza approaches the last person in the world and asks for their help - Angry, of the Bikers Gang - who in return uses her dilemma to a lucrative advantage. So, with a soulful of good intentions, four best mates and an unlimited fuel credit card, Shazza drives all the way to Aires Rock. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan, as the zany group of AusChav's get themselves arrested, broadcasted all over Australian television and, to make matters worse, leave Franky to experience some very personal deep probing from an unexpected guest in the desert.
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Movie: Bogan Hunters: Bathurst Conspiracy ( 2015 )
The Bogan Hunters travel to Mount Panorama seeking bogan behaviour at Bathurst 1000. Known as the geographic epicentre of bogan motorsports activities, the Bogan Hunters discover a shocking revelation of a Bathurst conspiracy to remove the bogans, burnouts and booze from the event. Along with 2013's finalists Darren and Fordy, the Bogan Hunters find out if political correctness has smashed the bogan legacy.
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Movie: Dad and Dave: On Our Selection ( 1995 )
Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to run for parliament.
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Movie: Charlie & Boots ( 2009 )
A father and son who travel from Victoria to Cape York to fulfill their lifelong ambition to fish off Australia's northern tip.
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Movie: Fatty Finn ( 1980 )
Fatty Finn raises dough for a new radio. Along the way, he encounters mishaps with a gang of bullies.
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Movie: Red Dog: True Blue ( 2016 )
An iconic Australian story of family, friendship and adventure, between a young boy and a scrappy one-of-a-kind dog that would grow up to become an Australian legend.
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Movie: Kill Me Three Times ( 2015 )
Professional hit-man Charlie Wolfe finds himself in three tales of murder, blackmail and revenge after a botched contract assignment.
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TV Show: Superwog ( 2018 )
Follow Superwog and best friend Johnny as their misadventures cause Superwog's primitive, highly-strung father stress as he battles to keep his delusional, but loyal wife happy.
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TV Show: At Home with Julia ( 2011 )
This four-part comedy series takes viewers into the life of PM Julia Gillard and boyfriend Tim Mathieson, behind the closed doors of The Lodge. How do Julia and Tim find ‘couple time' amid Independents crashing Date Night, Julia's security detail constantly suspecting terrorist plots against her, and non-stop unsolicited advice from Paul Keating?
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TV Show: Housos ( 2011 )
Housos tells the not-so-epic stories of Shazza, Dazza, Franky and Kylie - four best mates from down on the block. Sure, they drink away their problems, they might even have frequent domestics but down on the block it's all for one and one for all. Follow the adventures of the residents of the Sunnyvale Housing Commission in every-town Australia. They battle cops and they scam Centerlink, they even have the occasional threesome and swingers party, but once your down with the crew in the hood then it's "Sunnyvale for life".
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TV Show: It's a Date ( 2013 )
It's a Date is a comedy series exploring the trials and tribulations of the world of dating. It's A Date explores the tension, expectation and complication of finding true love. Each episode thematically links two self-contained dates as they bravely head toward desire or disaster.
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TV Show: Mr & Mrs Murder ( 2013 )
A clean freak with a heightened sense of justice, and a misfit with an encyclopaedic knowledge of just about everything, married couple Nicola and Charlie Buchanan run an extreme cleaning business which specialises in crime scenes. Armed with wit, smarts and the invisibility that cleaning brings, the duo solve the crimes the cops can't in a murder mystery with a smile.
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TV Show: The Ex-PM ( 2015 )
An Ex-Prime Minister must repay a million dollar advance for an autobiography he hasn't written - or get someone to write it for him ASAP.
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TV Show: Angry Boys ( 2011 )
Chris Lilley's highly anticipated series Angry Boys introduces you to identical Dunt twins Daniel & Nathan Sims and their prison officer grandmother Gran, tyrannical Japanese mother Jen Okazaki, U.S hip hop sensation S.mouse! and Mucca Mad Boys founder Blake Oakfield.
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TV Show: Kingswood Country ( 1980 )
Australian comedy about life with the Bullpitt family - irascible father Ted Bullpitt; mother Thelma; student son Craig; married daughter Greta, and her Italian husband Bruno.
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TV Show: Ronny Chieng: International Student ( 2017 )
Ronny Chieng: International Student is the story of Ronny Chieng, a Malaysian student who has travelled to Australia to study law. All he has to do is study, get good marks and make his Mom proud. Well, that was the plan anyway.