Independence Day's drunk Australian cousin crashes your TV with zero budget and maximum chaos.
At the age of 10, Australian-born Andi Gibson had what she describes as a close encounter with a flying saucer. Naturally, everyone assumed she was bonkers. That is until one notable evening, 17 years later, when an airborne extra-terrestrial armada launches a nation-wide assault on Andi's home country and at the same time, for unspecified reasons, kidnaps her mother. To add to the debacle, it seems the other nations of the world are far too insulted by their exclusion from the attack to come to Australia's aid. Now it is up to Andi, her hypochondriac brother Elliot, retired boxer cousin Keith and documentary filmmaker friend Cam to stop the attack and rescue Andi's mum. Enlisting the help of Andi's equal-parts mysterious and cringeworthy father, the gang must battle car-chasing spaceships, martial-arts aliens, giant killer robots and, perhaps most frighteningly, a deluge of family secrets in their fight to save Australia. Bloody hell, this is gonna be a long night
Practical Effects
Alien costumes that look like rejected mascot designs.
Writing
Dialogue so aggressively Australian it borders on performance art.
Acting
Rita Artmann commits harder than the budget ever could.
Director
Joe Bauer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film weaponizes Australia's 'forgotten continent' anxiety into actual plot mechanics—every other country literally ignores their invasion.
Director Joe Bauer shot this on weekends over two years while working his day job; the spaceship effects were literally thrown together in After Effects by the cast themselves.
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