Crackerjack (2002 film)

For other uses, see Crackerjack (disambiguation).

Crackerjack
Promotional poster
Directed by	Paul Moloney
Produced by	Greg Sitch, Mick Molloy
Written by	Mick Molloy, Richard Molloy
Starring	Mick Molloy, Bill Hunter, Frank Wilson, Monica Maughan, John Clarke, Judith Lucy, Samuel Johnson, Lois Ramsay, Bob Hornery, Esme Melville
Music by	Gareth Skinner
Cinematography	Brent Crockett
Editing by	Ken Sallows
Distributed by	Roadshow Entertainment (Australia)
Release date(s)	7 November 2002 (2002-11-07)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English

Crackerjack is a 2002 Australian motion picture comedy starring Mick Molloy, Bill Hunter, Frank Wilson, Monica Maughan, Samuel Johnson, Lois Ramsay, Bob Hornery, Judith Lucy, John Clarke and Denis Moore.

Plot summary

A wisecracking layabout, Jack Simpson (Molloy) joins a lawn bowls club in order to be allowed to use a free parking space. When the club enters financial difficulty, Simpson is forced to play lawn bowls with the much older crowd, with hilarious consequences. The film's villain, 'Pokies King' Bernie Fowler, was played, in a successful change-of-pace, by satirist John Clarke.

Crackerjack was the highest-grossing Australian film of the year and received two AFI Award nominations, for direction (Paul Moloney) and the screenplay (by Mick and brother Richard Molloy).

Location shots of the bowls club were filmed at the Melbourne Bowling Club in the suburb of Windsor. The Corowa Bowls Club in the NSW town of Corowa was also used for scenes featured in the finale.

The music used in the climactic scene as the lawn bowl rolled down the green in slow motion is Zadok the Priest by Handel.

Box Office

Crackerjack grossed $8,618,107 at the box office in Australia.^[1]

See also

• Cinema of Australia

References

1. ^ Film Victoria - Australian Films at the Australian Box Office

External links

• Crackerjack at the Internet Movie Database
• Crackerjack at AllRovi
• Crackerjack at the National Film and Sound Archive