Chris Elliot Movies
- 1998
Danielle Cormack plays a dual role of twin sisters in this comedy drama from New Zealand. Chrissy Dunn (Cormack) exits the bed of a strange man while her twin sister, Olympic swimmer Carol (also Cormack), wins an major race and prepares to swim for the gold. Back home, TV director Brian Stanning (Brian Sergent) spearheads a local TV station's plan for a satellite hook-up to reunite the entire dysfunctional Dunn family (including the widowed mother and two other sisters). Chrissy states her intention not to cooperate and finds that TV cameraman Paul (Karl Urban) is the stranger she slept with that night. Director Andrew McCarten made his directorial debut with this film, shown at the 1998 Melbourne Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Danielle Cormack, Timothy Balme, (more)
- 1998
Costa Bodes directed this New Zealand drama with a screenplay by Duncan Sarkies based on his own play. After the death of her mother, 19-year-old glue-sniffing Grace Kelly Cuthbertson (Kirsty Hamilton) lives in a shack in the cemetery. When she meets unemployed carpenter Gerald Hutchinson (Jim Moriarty), he invites her to stay at his place and teaches her how to construct furniture. After the two become lovers, Gerald reveals that he's actually a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Shown at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal World Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kirsty Hamilton, Jim Moriarty, (more)
In this comedic New Zealand fantasy, the spirit of an inventive monk, Elmer, who died 1,000 years ago while trying out his newest invention, a pair of wings, enters the mind of a young contemporary inventor, Jack Brown and tries to force Jack to learn to fly. But Jack is already busy avoiding the Boss, who is trying to get his formula for a new source of power. Jack is assisted by his best pal, Dennis and his girl friend Eileen, who is secretly in love with Jack. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Director Peter Jackson's second feature cheerfully trumps the gross-out quotient of his splatterfest debut, the appropriately named Bad Taste. The tone is cartoonishly comic, and the premise is simple: The village dweeb (Timothy Balme) is trying to maintain a budding romance with the sweet Paquita (Diana Penalver) while concealing the fact that his overbearing mum (Elizabeth Moody, in an amazing good-sport performance) is a flesh-eating zombie. (She owes her condition to a bite from a "Sumatran Rat Monkey" at the local zoo.) Complicating matters even further is Les, a greedy uncle (Ian Watkin), who suspects that his sister has died and is eager to occupy her elegantly furnished Victorian mansion. The climax is a housewarming party Les throws to celebrate his "inheritance;" what he really gets is his comeuppance, thanks to his sister and her similarly afflicted zombie pals, who burst out of their basement prison to turn the guests into appetizers. Our hero finally cuts a wide swath through the zombie party crashers with the help of a rotary blade lawn mower, leaving the house awash in blood and body parts in order to save his romance. ~ Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, (more)
