Spotswood

Australia, 1991

Film
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Spotswood is an ordinary place where nobody is ordinary, and where business as usual is very unusual! Anthony Hopkins plays Wallace, a time and motion expert who has come to Spotswood to turn the workers at the local moccasin factory from a bunch of eccentric oddballs, into a well-oiled working machine. This quirky film has a great cast, including Ben Mendelshon, Russell Crowe, Bruno Lawrence and Alwyn Kurts and is an epic saga sweeping two suburbs that is refreshing and uplifting comedy at its best!

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Credits

director

Mark Joffe

co-producer

Richard Brennan

Timothy White

production company

Meridian Films

Smiley Films

Duration

01:30:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1991

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

307626

Language

English

Audience classification

PG

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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