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''Welcome to Woop Woop'' has a TomatoMeter rating of 29% on [[Rotten Tomatoes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/welcome_to_woop_woop/ |title=Rotten Tomatoes |accessdate=2010-09-05}}</ref> |
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Long awaited as the followup film to Elliot's earlier film release, ''[[The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert]]'', the uncompleted ''Welcome to Woop Woop'' was screened "out of competition" at the [[1997 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4805/year/1997.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Welcome to Woop Woop |accessdate=2009-09-27|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> |
Long awaited as the followup film to Elliot's earlier film release, ''[[The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert]]'', the uncompleted ''Welcome to Woop Woop'' was screened "out of competition" at the [[1997 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4805/year/1997.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Welcome to Woop Woop |accessdate=2009-09-27|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> |
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| Directed by | Stephan Elliott |
| Written by | Michael Thomas Stephan Elliott Douglas Kennedy (novel) |
| Produced by | Finola Dwyer |
| Starring | Johnathon Schaech Rod Taylor Susie Porter Dee Smart |
| Cinematography | Mike Molloy |
| Edited by | Martin Walsh |
| Music by | Guy Gross |
| Distributed by | Goldwyn Entertainment Company |
Release date | 13 November 1998 (US) |
Running time | 97 minutes 106 minutes (Cannes Film Festival) |
| Countries | Template:FilmAustralia Template:FilmUK |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $37,621 |
Welcome to Woop Woop is a 1997 Australian comedy film, directed by Stephan Elliott starring Johnathon Schaech and Rod Taylor. The film was based on the novel The Dead Heart by Douglas Kennedy. "Woop Woop" is an Australian colloquialism referring to a fictional location in the middle of nowhere.
Plot
Teddy (Jonathan Schaech) is a New York bird smuggler who goes to Australia to replace a flock of escaped birds after a deal goes awry. While there, he has a wild liaison with a quirky, sexually ravenous girl, Angie (Susie Porter), who after a brief courtship knocks him unconscious and kidnaps him. When he awakes he finds himself "married" to her - not legally - and stranded in Woop Woop, a desolate, dilapidated town hidden within a crater-like rock formation in Aboriginal territory. The residents are people who lived there at an asbestos mining camp before the land was handed over to the Aborigines; following a tragedy in 1979, Woop Woop was abandoned and literally "erased" from the Australian map. Not content with the deal given to them by the mining company (from Fremantle), they opted to return to their old lives in Woop Woop. At first they repopulated themselves incestuously, which caused wide mental instability. A rule was then enacted ("Rule #3") which bans residents from sleeping with their relatives. Since then, outsiders like Teddy have been occasionally kidnapped to keep Woop Woop populated.
Their only export is dog food made from road-killed kangaroos. The town is run by Angie's father, Daddy-O (Rod Taylor), in an authoritarian manner that he disguises as communal (he and the other town elders keep the best luxuries for themselves in secret while doling out only the usual canned pineapple and sub-par tobacco to the others). The only entertainment available to the residents are old Rodgers & Hammerstein movies and soundtracks, the latter of which they play constantly. These are presumably left over from the town's last official contact with the civilized world.
After witnessing another kidnapping, 'Midget' the local hairdresser, get shot to death by Daddy-O during an attempted escape, Teddy soon realizes he will be trapped in Woop Woop for life unless he finds a way out for himself. Initially, he repairs his VW van which had been vandalized by the locals, only to have it vandalized again by Daddy-O. The Australian Cattle Dog that he adopts is shot as part of 'Dog Day.' He befriends a couple of locals, including the scruffy, affable Duffy, and Krystal, Angie's sister, who help him to confront Daddy-O's iron-fisted reign, and to arrange an escape plan. Duffy, reprimanded by Daddy-O for breaking 'Rule #3,' nonetheless elects to stay in Woop Woop, while Teddy, Krystal, and Krystal's pet cockatoo escape.
In the epilogue of the film, the 'twins' that Angie told Teddy she was pregnant with arrive at the New York pet shop Krystal and Teddy have started. They are named Sonny and Cher, in accordance with Teddy's joking suggestion to Angie.
Cast
- Jonathan Schaech as Teddy
- Rod Taylor as Daddy-O
- Susie Porter as Angie
- Dee Smart as Krystal
- Richard Moir as Reggie
- Maggie Kirkpatrick as Ginger
- Barry Humphries as Blind Wally
- Mark Wilson as Duffy
- Paul Mercurio as Midget
Soundtrack
A soundtrack was released by Universal.
- "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" - Cake
- "There is Nothin' Like a Dame" - Reel Big Fish
- "Timebomb" - Chumbawamba
- "I Can't Say No" - Poe
- "Welcome to Your Life (Woop, Woop)" - Boy George
- "I Got You Babe" - Merril Bainbridge and Shaggy
- "Bali Ha'i" - Moodswings and Neneh Cherry
- "Dog's Life" - eels
- "You'll Never Walk Alone" - Robin S.
- "Climb Every Mountain" - Peggy Wood and Junior Vasquez
Reception
Welcome to Woop Woop has a TomatoMeter rating of 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.[1]
Long awaited as the followup film to Elliot's earlier film release, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the uncompleted Welcome to Woop Woop was screened "out of competition" at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Rotten Tomatoes". Retrieved 5 September 2010.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Welcome to Woop Woop". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 27 September 2009.