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Malcolm

Nadia Tass  •  Australia  • ​  1986
82 mins  •  PG

Malcolm and his friends are an unlikely trio. One wacky inventor and two professional thieves. Watch them take the money and split.

“An Ealing comedy transported to the suburbs of Melbourne.” – Movie Talk
DIRECTOR: Nadia Tass
PRODUCERS: David Parker, Nadia Tass
SCREENPLAY: David Parker
PHOTOGRAPHY: David Parker
EDITOR: Ken Sallows
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Chris Haywood
COSTUME DESIGNER: Linda McGuigan
MUSIC: Paul Coppens, Simon Jeffes
WITH: Colin Friels (Malcolm Hughes),
Lindy Davies (Judith), John Hargreaves
(Frank Baker)


REVIEW

“The winner of eight Australian Film Festival awards, this tells the entertaining story of Malcolm (Colin Friels), something of an electronic whiz who is a bit backward (think of Father Dougal with an Australian accent) but, one assumes, harmless enough. Having lost his job at the tram company for making his own mini-tram and riding it around town after-hours, he takes in lodgers ex-con John Hargreaves and his girl Lindy Davis to help pay the bills. Before long the three of them turn to a life of crime, adapting their combined skills to earn themselves a bit of easy money. Malcolm is engaging, funny and features some of the most fantastically silly stunts.”
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— Giala Murray, Empire

“In less than five minutes, this quaint and endearing film – a hit with crowds and critics, but cultish enough to be discovered by new audiences – neatly establishes its antihero as a screwy genius who moves to his own mechanically engineered beat. Malcolm is a clever and oddly warming oddity: a crime caper in which nobody gets their comeuppance and which doesn't condescend, nor turns a blind eye to the peculiarities of its lead character.”

— Luke Buckmaster, The Guardian


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