The Nugget
Appearance
The Nugget | |
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Directed by | Bill Bennett |
Written by | Bill Bennett |
Produced by | Jennifer Cluff-Bennett Bill Bennett |
Starring | Eric Bana Stephen Curry Dave O'Neil Belinda Emmett Vince Colosimo |
Cinematography | Danny Ruhlmann |
Edited by | Henry Dangar |
Music by | Nigel Westlake |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Roadshow |
Release date | 2002 |
Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Budget | A$500,000 (approximate) |
The Nugget is a 2002 comedy film about three friends who find the world's largest nugget of gold.
Storyline
The story concerns a group of three road workers who stumble upon the world's biggest nugget of gold, and become instant millionaires — or so they think. The road workers are mates from way back, and each weekend they go out to an old goldmining site hoping to strike it rich. Each weekend they come back with nothing but a hangover. But then everything changes when they discover the world's biggest nugget — worth many millions of dollars.
Cast
- Eric Bana as Lotto
- Stephen Curry as Wookiee
- Dave O'Neil as Sue
- Belinda Emmett as Cheryl
- Peter Moon as Ratner
- Vince Colosimo as Dimitri
- Max Cullen as Wally
- Karen Pang as Moon Choo
- Sallyanne Ryan as Darlene
- Alan Brough as Jurgen
- Jeff Truman as George
- Chris Haywood as Doug
- Jean Kittson as Joyce
- Glenda Linscott as Bunny
- Jane Hall as Lucy
Box office
The Nugget grossed $1,920,993 at the box office in Australia.[1]