Bad Eggs (2003)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Tony Martin

Writer:

Tony Martin (written by)

Release Date:

24 July 2003 (Australia)

Genre:

Comedy | Thriller

Tagline:

Someone's on the shonk.

Plot:

Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are two undercover detectives with way too much publicity.

Awards:

7 nominations

Cast

Mick Molloy	...	Ben Kinnear
Bob Franklin	...	Mike Paddock
Judith Lucy	...	Julie Bale
Alan Brough	...	Northey
Bill Hunter	...	Ted Pratt
Marshall Napier	...	Doug Gillespie
Steven Vidler	...	Pendlebury
Nicholas Bell	...	Wicks
Shaun Micallef	...	Premier Lionel Cray
Robyn Nevin	...	Eleanor Poulgrain
Brett Swain	...	Bartlett
Denis Moore	...	Marcus Ridgeway
Pete Smith	...	Darcy
Chris Peters	...	Rodney Poulgrain
Peter Rowsthorn	...	Wacka

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Fountain Gate Shopping Centre, Narre Warren, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Company:

A Million Monkeys

Trivia:

According to the DVD commentary, the night before the film began shooting, the Melbourne Herald Sun withdrew permission for the filmmakers to use their newspaper in the movie (a subeditor had complained that the fictional "Police Shoot Dead Man 12 Times" headline didn't make sense). The Herald Sun was changed to the non-existent Melbourne Tribune, the same newspaper Judith Lucy worked for in the earlier Mick Molloy comedy Crackerjack (2002).

Quotes:

Mike Paddock: So why'd this bloke top himself?
Ben Kinnear: They found some photos in the car. Let's just say the "respected magistrate" liked to... uh...
Mike Paddock: What?
Ben Kinnear: I'm trying to think of a legal term that has... you know, a sexual double-meaning?
Mike Paddock: 'Perform acts with underage prostitutes'?
Ben Kinnear: Is that a legal term?
Mike Paddock: Dunno, but it's the exact phrase I put on my Psychological Test under 'ambitions'.
[pause]
Mike Paddock: There's someone behind me, isn't there? And it's the worst possible person it could be, isn't it?

Movie Connections:

References Midnight Run (1988)

Soundtrack:

Where or When

Not your typical "Aussie Movie"

Just saw "Bad Eggs". It was a refreshing movie, (Compared to other Australian attempts at movie making) and the opening shots of the car "driven" by a dead person had the whole cinema laughing their guts out. You are watching wondering till almost the very end as to "who done it", some new actors, and some that that have probably been in every Aussie movie made...

Well worth watching, 7 out of 10 :)