Malcolm (film)
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Australian DVD cover
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| Directed by | Nadia Tass |
| Produced by |
David Parker Nadia Tass |
| Written by | David Parker |
| Starring |
Colin Friels John Hargreaves Lindy Davies Chris Haywood Charles (Bud) Tingwell |
| Music by |
Paul Coppens Simon Jeffes |
| Cinematography | David Parker |
| Edited by | Ken Sallows |
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Production
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Cascade Films
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| Distributed by | Hoyts (Australia) Umbrella Entertainment Vestron Pictures (US) |
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Running time
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90 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English Serbian |
| Budget | A$1 million |
| Box office | $3,842,129 (Australia) |
Malcolm is a 1986 Australian cult film comedy, written by the husband-and-wife team of David Parker and Nadia Tass, and directed by Nadia Tass (who made her debut as a feature director on this film). The film stars Colin Friels as Malcolm, a tram enthusiast who becomes involved with a pair of would-be bank robbers. His co-stars are Lindy Davies and John Hargreaves. The film won the 1986 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film, and seven other AFI awards including Best Script and Best Director.
At the start of the film Malcolm is working for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (then operator of Melbourne's trams). Socially awkward and shy, Malcolm is obsessed with trams, but he is also a mechanical genius whose modest inner-city cottage is fitted with a variety of remarkable gadgets. When his boss (Bud Tingwell) discovers that Malcolm has built himself a cut-down tram during work time and using work materials, and has taken it out on the tracks, Malcolm is sacked. With his mother dead and no other income, the local shop-owner advises him to take in a boarder, Frank (John Hargreaves). Frank's brassy girlfriend Judith (Lindy Davies) soon moves in with him, and Frank reveals that he is a petty criminal who has recently been released from gaol. Despite their differences, the trio develop an awkward friendship, and when Malcolm learns of Frank and Jude's plans to stage a robbery, he decides to use his technical ingenuity to help them. In his first demonstration, he shows Frank the "getaway car" he has built, which splits into two independently powered halves, and they use this to successfully elude police after Frank steals some cash from a bank customer.
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