Barry Humphries
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Cast: Toni Collette Philip Seymour Hoffman Eric Bana Barry Humphries Adam Elliot
Tags: Comedy Drama Tragi-comedy Period Film
Length: 92min
Academy Award-winning Harvie Krumpet director Adam Elliot returns to the world of clay animation with this simple tale of the innocent correspondence between a portly eight year old girl from the suburbs of Melbourne and a morbidly obese, middle-aged...
Cast: Paul Cox Wendy Hughes Barry Humphries Alex Menglet Bruce Myles
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 100min
Acclaimed Australian filmmaker Paul Cox directs this intimate drama about the unlikely bond between a prostitute and a bible scholar. Natalia Novakova plays Irina, a Russian immigrant forced to sell herself out of necessity. Bruce Myles is Barry, a...
Cast: Isabella Rossellini Gary Oldman Bernard Rose Miriam Margolyes Jeroen Krabbé
Tags: Romantic Drama Musical Drama Biopic Drama Period Film
Length: 121min
This biography of Ludwig von Beethoven (played here by Gary Oldman) builds its narrative around an actual letter found after his death, addressed only to the composer's "immortal beloved." The responsibility of discovering this mysterious person's...
Les Patterson Saves The World (1987)
Cast: George Miller Barry Humphries Joan Rivers Andrew Clarke Thaao Penghlis
Length: 95min
Essentially a showcase for the talents of Australian comedian Barry Humphries, this earthy comedy tells the tale of a boorish and boozy Aussie ambassador and his wife (Humphries plays both characters) who are stationed in a Middle Eastern country....
Cast: Bruce Beresford John Waters Janet Shaw Barry Humphries Donald M. McAlpine
Tags: Period Film Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 100min
The suffocating repressiveness of the Victorian era is superbly realized by director Bruce Beresford in The Getting of Wisdom. Thirteen-year-old Laura (Susannah Fowle), an incorrigible free spirit from the Australian outback, is enrolled in a...
Cast: Barry Humphries David Baker Kate Fitzpatrick John Jarratt Judy Morris
Tags: Drama Sports Drama
Length: 93min
This comedy, based on Barry Oakley's popular novel Salute to the Great McCarthy chronicles the adventurous and amorous exploits of an Australian country boy. The whole mess begins when the strapping lad is kidnapped and taken to Melbourne to play...
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)
Cast: Bruce Beresford Donald Pleasence Roy Kinnear John Le Mesurier Barry Humphries
Tags: Adventure Comedy Farce Comedy
Length: 120min
Comedian, actor, and author Barry Humphries wrote and co-stars in this sequel to the surprise international hit The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, based on the comic-strip character created by Humphries. Well-meaning but dunderheaded über-Aussie Barry...
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
Cast: Bruce Beresford Dennis Price Peter Cook Spike Milligan Donald M. McAlpine
Tags: Adventure Comedy Comedy Western Adventure Comedy
Length: 117min
The popular Australian comic strip -The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie was first brought to the screen in this raunchy 1972 romp. Barry Crocker plays the title character, a carefree Aussie cowboy with an inordinate fondness for beer and "Sheilas"....
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