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Dead End Drive-In
Australia 1986
produced by
Andrew Williams for New South Wales Film Corp., Springvale Productions
directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith
starring Ned Manning, Natalie McCurry, Peter Whitford, Wilbur Wilde, Dave Gibson, Sandie Lillingston, Ollie Hall, Lyn Collingwood, Nikki McWaters, Melissa Davis, Margi Di Ferranti, Desirée Smith, Murray Fahey, Jeremy Shadlow, Brett Climo, Alan McQueen, Ken Snodgrass, Bill Lyle, Garry Who, Bernadette Foster, Ron Sinclair, Gandhi MacIntyre, David Jones
written by Peter Carey, music by Frank Strangio
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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In a dystopian future, not too far removed from the 1980s: All Jimmy
(Ned Manning) wanted to do was take his girlfriend Carmen (Natalie
McCurry) out to a bit of making out on the backseat at the local drive-in
... and then two of his tyres are stolen, and not just by anyone but by a
couple of cops - but when Jimmy wants to report it to the place's manager
Thompson (Peter Whitford), he offers little assistance other than agreeing
to let Jimmy and Carmen stay for the night at the drive-in and see what he
can do tomorrow - which the youngsters agree to ... to notice the next
morning that there were quite a few people, all youngsters like
themselves, staying overnight, and apparently some of them have stayed
quite a bit longer than that. Jimmy makes investigations and soon finds
out that the drive-in is less of a drive-in (even though movies are played
every night) and more of a correctional facility, as one can't leave from
here but by car, but a car without wheels isn't much use. Apparently too,
everyone in here shares a similar story, and most of them have actually
accepted their situation and made the best of it - especially since many
of them didn't have much of a life outside. But Jimmy isn't one to be
quieted down that easily, and thus is actually not liked all that well by
the other "inmates" - even Carmen eventually starts to find him
and his attempts to escape a little obnoxious eventually. Problems in the
drive-in really heat up though when the police, in the dark of the night,
ship in a waggonload of Asians, with their derelict cars, and a white
supremacy league thus soon starts to stir troubles, just for the sake of
it - which only reinforces Jimmy's resolution to get away as soon as
possible ... One can be of two minds about Dead End Drive-In:
On one hand, the film is a bit of a missed opportunity, it never totally
lives up to its promises, and falls short of being a political satire by
way of dystopian science fiction, with a bit of absurdity thrown in ... or
one can see the movie as a fun piece of 80s nostalgia, where a bizarre
plot is married to plenty of action, punk and new wave music and fashion,
quite some nice camerawork and imagery, bits of comedy and plenty of
tension in an oddly irreverent story. It's really your choice here, but as
for me, a fun trip down memory lane can never be the wrong thing to do!
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