Caper movie, Aussie-style: The Hard Word (http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Word-Guy-Pearce/dp/B0000C2IQR/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1200762889&sr=8-1). Guy Pearce and his two weird brothers get sprung from prison to pull off a robbery at the Melbourne Cup, with the help of loyal? girlfriend Rachel Griffiths. Plot borrows liberally from The Getaway, but with plenty of wonderful Aussie loopiness added. (Oh, and costume design by Farscape's Terry Ryan.)
Not quite a caper movie, but another little Aussie gem: Dirty Deeds (http://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Deeds-Bryan-Brown/dp/B0000CABJJ/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1200763231&sr=8-3) (not to be confused with a later U.S. flick of the same title). Bryan Brown's a Sydney mobster in the 60s, Toni Collette's his wife, Sam Neill's a dirty cop -- and John Goodman's an American Mafioso sent to muscle in; quirkiness ensues.
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Date: 2008-01-19 05:45 pm (UTC)Not quite a caper movie, but another little Aussie gem: Dirty Deeds (http://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Deeds-Bryan-Brown/dp/B0000CABJJ/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1200763231&sr=8-3) (not to be confused with a later U.S. flick of the same title). Bryan Brown's a Sydney mobster in the 60s, Toni Collette's his wife, Sam Neill's a dirty cop -- and John Goodman's an American Mafioso sent to muscle in; quirkiness ensues.
(Crap. Now I'm homesick.)