The cars that ate Paris / Janus Films ; Australian Film Development Corporation and Royce Smeal Film Productions present ; screenplay, Peter Weir ; produced by Hal McElroy & Jim McElroy ; directed by Peter Weir. The plumber / South Australian Film Corporation in association with Channel Nine and the Australian Film Commission ; produced by Matt Carroll ; written & directed by Peter Weir.
Publisher:
Home Vision Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2003
Description:
1 videodisc (86, 77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
The cars that ate Paris: John Meillon, Terry Camilleri, Kevin Miles. The plumber: Judy Morris, Ivar Kants, Robert Coleby. First feature based on a story by Peter Weir, Keith Gow, Piers Davies. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1975 and a made-for-television drama in 1979. Letterboxed. A foreign film (Australia).
Summary:
The cars that ate Paris is a black comedy about an Australian town that survives by deliberately contriving car accidents and selling the parts. In The plumber, a housewife becomes terrified by the visits of the apartment building plumber who appears each day as soon as her husband leaves for work and creates more havoc than functioning pipes in the bathroom.
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