Read the welcome to woop woop movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on. Well, i dont follow cinema much, so i missed the release of welcome to woop woop in 1997 actually, im not even sure if it was released in america. A bold, sexy comedy, welcome to woop woop is directed by stephan elliott, his first project since the unconventional box office smash the adventures of priscilla, queen of the desert, and produced by finola dwyer backbeat, with nik powell and stephen woolley serving as executive producers the crying game, interview with the vampire and. This film is by no means wholesome, as it is sexy as all get out. Welcome to woop woop 1997 stephan elliott synopsis. Welcome to woop woop 1997 cast and crew an australian susie porter kidnaps an american jonathon schaech and keeps him prisoner in her odd village, where denizens drink beer, curse and listen.
Welcome to woop woop 1997 cast and crew an australian susie porter kidnaps an american jonathon schaech and keeps him prisoner in her odd. Welcome to woop woop is a 1998 english film stars johnathon schaech, douglas kennedy, michael thomas, stephan elliott, stephan elliott, finola dwyer, guy gross, martin walsh, mike molloy, lizzy gardiner, rod taylor, susie porter, richard moir, barry humphries, mark wilson, maggie kirkpatrick, paul mercurio, mark wilson, directed by. Welcome to woop woop is indisputably the best bad film to hit our screens in many a moon. Welcome to woop woop is a 1997 australian comedy film, directed by stephan elliott starring johnathon schaech and rod. Movies and food are two of the things we do best at sbs. Woop woop is an australian colloquialism referring to a fictional location in the middle of nowhere. A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in new york and winds up in the aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants. Welcome to woop woop is both a horrible piece of shit and a beautiful mess of a film. Streaming full welcome to woop woop 1998 first, once you can rate this movie.
Welcome to woop woop is a unique comedy, so refreshingly different when the typical film comedy nowadays is so vulgar and predictable. Read about the welcome to woop woop dvd and browse other dvd movies. The despised and indispensable welcome to woop woop. Now what fascinates me to this day is that i wonder if i had kept the. Welcome to woop woop nude scenes 7 images and 3 videos including appearances from johnathon schaech. Own it now on or dvd on the run from a deal gone bad, new york conartist teddy jonathan schaech, that. Stephan elliott, creator of the adventures of priscilla, queen of the desert, goes back to the kingdom of australian camp in a followup. Teddy follows them and runs away to hide in australia, where he meets angie, who he thinks is the girl of his dreams until she knocks him. Just like the rest of the movie, nothing much in those scenes is left. Stay in the know with the latest movie news and cast interviews at. Dec 02, 2014 welcome to woop woop trailer 1998 director. This freaky, but remarkable movie is based on the novel the dead heart. With johnathon schaech, rod taylor, susie porter, dee smart. View photos from welcome to woop woop, red carpet photos, and more at.
Instead, welcome to woop woop commits a cardinal sin of movie soundtracks its bland. Thats understandable, and if the music was worthwhile, it would be forgivable. Luhrmann also set out to make a movie stuffed full of australianisms. In 2016, almost twenty years after the film first debuted, a book about this movie, written by michael winkler, was first published on 20th april that year, about nineteen years after the films 1997 world premiere. Stephan elliott, jonathan schaech, rod taylor, susie porter, dee smart, michael thomas screenplay, douglas kennedy based on a work by, finola dwyer, nik powell, stephen woolley exec prod.
Vulgar, disgusting and featuring the grimiest art direction since texas chainsaw massacre, woop woop is kind of like john waters in the outback. Nov 20, 1998 stephan elliott, creator of the adventures of priscilla, queen of the desert, goes back to the kingdom of australian camp in a followup to his 1994 cult hit. A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in new york and winds up in the aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits. None of these artists cake, reel big fish, chumbawamba, robin s. Always remember dont trust the opinion of welcome to woop woop 1998 on the internet because the authors paid to write a comment. Welcome to woop woop where to watch streaming and online. Welcome to woop woop 1997 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. In part, filmmaker stephan elliott best known for made this black, surrealistic and subversive comedy to bid farewell to australian cultural traditions i. There are many bizarre characters and plot twists mostly set in a small isolated town in australia. Jul 30, 2015 kidnapped by blonde sexpot angie susie porter,two hands teddy is taken to a mysterious township called woop woop where beer flows free and people swear loud, populated by a rough and tumble. A bird smuggler johnathon schaech flees new york for australia and ends up shackled and married to a voracious sex kitten susie porter. Welcome to woop woop 1997 stream and watch online moviefone.
You can write, welcome to woop woop 1998 is a good movie, but it can be is a bad movie. It wasnt until i read an interview with kennedy in which he complained, the book was noir, and they made a musical comedy out of it that i realized there might be a dvd. In part, filmmaker stephan elliott best known for the adventures of priscilla queen of the desert made this black. Teddy awakens to find himself in the dusty town of woop woop. As with priscilla, the antipodean landscape glows with a beautiful, bright golden hue, and elliott has cast his film with the bastard offspring of george millers post. As the camera closes in on taylor saying woop woop, elliott says thats somebody elses lips in there, in the special effects department saying the words woop woop, and we stole the word woop woop from when rod had said it somewhere else in the movie. Welcome to woop woop is a 1997 australian comedy film teddy is an american man selling australian bush cockatoos on the nyc black market to pay off a debt. This stephan elliott directed movie was made and first released about three years after his oscar academy. Welcome to woop woop 1997 movies, tv, celebs, and more. Johnathon schaech and susie porter in welcome to woop woop 1997 johnathon schaech and dee smart in.
The scene where hes eating his own sperm has to be one of the cinemas. Finola dwyer, nik powell, stephen woolley exec prod. Welcome to woop woop is a 1998 english film stars johnathon schaech, douglas kennedy, michael thomas, stephan elliott, stephan elliott, finola dwyer, guy gross, martin walsh, mike molloy, lizzy gardiner, rod taylor, susie porter, richard moir, barry humphries, mark wilson, maggie kirkpatrick, paul mercurio, mark wilson, directed by stephan elliott. Well, hes already working on his next film, signed well before welcome to woop woop was handed in, no doubt. Its surreal, a bit disturbing, but strangely, and darkly amusing as well. When men come for the money, shots are fired and his birds are set free. The film was based on the novel the dead heart by douglas kennedy. Paul mercurio, rod taylor, jonathon schaech, rachel griffiths, susie porter, official content from orion home video a con. Released 1997, welcome to woop woop stars johnathon schaech, rod taylor, susie porter, dee smart the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 36 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. John was a complete knockout in that film, elliott told filmink in 1998. Its one of the ballsiest representations of australia and would make a fantastic doublebill with wake in fright. The soundtrack to stephen elliots welcome to woop woop is a confused, uneven collection of postalternative pop, adult alternative, pop, dance, skapunk and adult contemporary. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled.
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