Tony Harvey Movies
- 2003
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Children's pop group The Wiggles help spread both magic and music in their first full-length motion picture. Dorothy the Dinosaur (voice of Carolyn Ferrie) is getting ready to celebrate her birthday, but she begins to imagine that all her friends have forgotten about her. What Dorothy doesn't know is that her friends Wags the Dog (Paul Paddick), Captain Feathersword (also played by Paul Paddick) and Henry the Octopus are joining forces with The Wiggles (Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, and Greg Page) to throw a special surprise party for her in the park. However, Dorothy has hit the road with Wally (Tony Harvey), a magician who hasn't had much luck cating spells lately; she's hoping he can tell her what her birthday will be like, while Wally wants to boost his magical power to win a contest at the Magic Club and live up to his family's long-standing reputation as expert magicians. Can The Wiggles catch up with Dorothy in time for her big party? The Wiggles: Magical Adventure! A Wiggly Movie also features sixteen songs from the good-natured pop quartet. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Australian filmmaker Paul Goldman directs the comedy The Night We Called It a Day, based on the actual events during Frank Sinatra's 1974 tour stop in Sydney. Joel Edgerton plays Rod Blue, a long-haired rock promoter in Australia during the '70s. He hopes to save his floundering career by spending all his money booking Frank Sinatra (Dennis Hopper). But when Sinatra arrives with his girlfriend Barbara Marx (Melanie Griffith), he insults the locals by calling reporter Hilary Hunter (Portia de Rossi) "a two-dollar whore." Union leader and future Australian prime minister Bob Hawke (David Field) tries to cancel the tour unless he apologizes, and it's up to Rod and his assistant Audrey (Rose Byrne) to step in and save the tour. Tom Burlinson performs Sinatra's vocal parts. The Night We Called It a Day was shown at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith, (more)
The life of legendary scientist Albert Einstein is re-imagined as a slapstick farce in this comic fantasy. Changing Einstein's country of origin from Germany to Tasmania, the film shows the scientist's eventful youth as he creates rock & roll and discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom. Director and star Yahoo Serious loads the film with slapstick comedy, absurd sight gags, and even sneaks in a romantic subplot in which Einstein courts Marie Curie. The film was a huge hit in its native Australia but a major box-office disappointment in the United States, where audiences largely ignored the display of nonstop silliness. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi
- Starring:
- Yahoo Serious, Odile Le Clezio, (more)
- 1971
- R
Czech filmmaker Milos Forman's first American production stars Linnea Heacock as Jeannie Tyne, a runaway teenager. While she wanders aimlessly around New York, her suburban parents, Lynn (Lynn Carlin) and Larry (Buck Henry), desperately search for their "missing" daughter. Larry and his best friend, Tony (Tony Harvey), inaugurate a search, but their expedition is sidetracked by a drinking binge at a local bar. Meanwhile, Lynn and Tony's wife, Margot (Georgia Engel), begin discussing their sex lives. Jeannie does finally return home, to constant questioning by her parents about which drugs she has taken; later, after Lynn and Larry join a support group for the parents of runaway children, they turn around and get stoned on marijuana themselves during one of the group meetings, then lapse into a randy game of strip poker -- little realizing that their daughter is close at hand and within earshot. As a critically revered lampoon of late-'60s sensibilities, Taking Off is full of "unknown" Manhattan-based performers who became famous during the '70s and '80s, including Paul Benedict, Vincent Schiavelli, Allen Garfield, Audra Lindley, and, in fleeting roles as auditioning singers, Carly Simon, who performs "Long Time Physical Effects," and Kathy Bates (billed as Bobo Bates), who performs "Even the Horses Had Wings." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, (more)
