Kerry Mack Movies
- 1993
Anthony LaPaglia, who's probably played more cops than Pat O'Brien, Edgar Kennedy and Fred Kelsey combined, dons brass and blue once more in The Custodian. LaPaglia plays a frustrated Australian policeman who decides to take on departmental corruption in a most unorthodox fashion. When he's not wrestling with bureaucracy and the good-ole-boy network, the policeman must contend with his unhappy marriage. All of the protagonist's various travails come to a head in the offbeat finale. The Custodian cannot be recommended for children, so pop it in your VCR after the little darlings are snuggled in bed. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Anthony LaPaglia, Hugo Weaving, (more)
- 1988
In this irreverent, off-the-wall Australian comedy, Amanda Dole is a beautiful woman who emerges from the forest in search of her parents after being raised by dingoes. She stumbles into a haunted film studio occupied by a demented doctor (Esben Storm) and his disabled, daffy wife (Arna-Maria Winchester). David Argue plays the inept hero who tries to keep himself and the Dingo Girl one step ahead of vampires, Nazis, a crooked cop, and other urban nightmares. This campy comedy became a cult classic. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- David Argue, Amanda Dole, (more)
- 1985
Empty Beach brings Australian novelist Peter Corris' detective hero Cliff Hardy to the big screen. F/X star Bryan Brown plays Hardy, who this time around is hired to confirm or disprove the reported death of a millionaire. Hardy confers with journalist Brian Henneberry (Clifford Tate), who has some potentially explosive evidence -- and who, inevitably, is murdered before he can talk. The trail of evidence runs hot and cold, thanks to a gaggle of suspects and hangers-on who aren't revealing everything that they know. Co-starring in Empty Beach is Anna Maria Monticelli, aka Anna Jemison. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Bryan Brown, Anna Maria Monticelli, (more)
- 1984
This low-budget film is about a discontented, rather boring couple. Nick Bailey (Harold Hopkins) is tired of his office job, tired of his marriage, and tired of the awful apartment he shares with his wife. She feels the same, and each consider having an affair -- he with a young woman who runs a hamburger stand, and she with a former lover. Their fantasies are not all that exciting, as might be expected, and the resolution of how to get out of their rut, as deep and wide as the Grand Canyon, stays within their standards of mediocrity. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Harold Hopkins, Jeanie Drynan, (more)
- 1983
The German-Australian Savage Attraction was originally released as Hostage: The Christine Maresch Story. Kerry Mack portrays the real-life Christine, whose youth and idealism is cut short when she is strong-armed into a marriage with a neo-Nazi (Ralph Shicha). Even though this takes place in the 1970s, Christine is treated no better by her craftily sadistic husband than she would have been at the height of National Socialist domination in the 1940s. The film tends to make the same points over and over, but the fact-based story has enough in-built drama to sustain interest. Savage Attraction is a grimly suspenseful tale of obsession, possession and desperation: an R rating was definitely called for, and duly applied. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Kerry Mack, Ralph Schicha, (more)
- 1982
This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dave Atkins, Jacki Weaver, (more)
- 1982
A bunch of teenaged girls go to a swinging resort town. They take their clothes off and jiggle around for a while for the benefit of the heavy breathers in the front row. Then the girls are victimized by the local psychos and sex perverts -- in other words, by just about everyone in town. One of the girls manages to escape and violently turn the tables. Kerry Mack, Kim Trengove, and Marie O'Laughlin head the no-star cast. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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