Crackerjack (DVD)
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Jack Simpson, a fat-arsed slob and scammer who owns three memberships at his local bowling Cclub but has never picked up a bowl.Membership gets him free parking near Melbourne's CBD; he sells access to the other spaces to his friends. The club is skint, but refusing to give in to a developer (John Clarke) who wants to bring in pokies. Faced with losing his membership after the club is caught one short in a team, Jack must learn how to play the game.
Jack is a swaggering lout with a big mouth. He has talent, but he's a mug on the green, to the disgust of senior club stalwarts Stan (Bill Hunter), Len (Frank Wilson) and Eileen (Monica Maughan). He's even worse in the clubhouse, after a couple of beers at 1972 prices.
Bowls, Stan tells him pointedly, is a 'true revealer of character', meaning he knows the kid doesn't have any. The most pointed line is about the difference between Stan's outlook on work and Jack's. 'I'd dig ditches with the right people,' growls Stan, with withering candour.
The movie is about Jack getting knocked off the donkey, like St Paul. Jack grows to manhood through bowls. This field of green becomes his Gallipoli, in a way, as a bunch of senior citizens teach him about honour, fidelity, and teamwork.
Stan the bowls tragic, played by Bill Hunter, is a growling bull of indignation, mixed with towering decency. Judith Lucy, as the bowls reporter for the local rag (the closest the film has to a love interest) is funny because she sees clearly how much of a jackass Jack is, and tells him often.
VERY FUNNY AUSTRALIAN FILM
Crackerjack (DVD)
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$9.99
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🔴 Condition - Very Good 🔴
Jack Simpson, a fat-arsed slob and scammer who owns three memberships at his local bowling Cclub but has never picked up a bowl.Membership gets him free parking near Melbourne's CBD; he sells access to the other spaces to his friends. The club is skint, but refusing to give in to a developer (John Clarke) who wants to bring in pokies. Faced with losing his membership after the club is caught one short in a team, Jack must learn how to play the game.
Jack is a swaggering lout with a big mouth. He has talent, but he's a mug on the green, to the disgust of senior club stalwarts Stan (Bill Hunter), Len (Frank Wilson) and Eileen (Monica Maughan). He's even worse in the clubhouse, after a couple of beers at 1972 prices.
Bowls, Stan tells him pointedly, is a 'true revealer of character', meaning he knows the kid doesn't have any. The most pointed line is about the difference between Stan's outlook on work and Jack's. 'I'd dig ditches with the right people,' growls Stan, with withering candour.
The movie is about Jack getting knocked off the donkey, like St Paul. Jack grows to manhood through bowls. This field of green becomes his Gallipoli, in a way, as a bunch of senior citizens teach him about honour, fidelity, and teamwork.
Stan the bowls tragic, played by Bill Hunter, is a growling bull of indignation, mixed with towering decency. Judith Lucy, as the bowls reporter for the local rag (the closest the film has to a love interest) is funny because she sees clearly how much of a jackass Jack is, and tells him often.
VERY FUNNY AUSTRALIAN FILM