An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbera.
Direction
Ray Lawrence's dreamlike descent into madness
Writing
Peter Carey's unhinged adaptation of his own novel
Acting
Barry Otto's perfectly unravelling everyman
Director
Ray Lawrence
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peter Carey refused to write the screenplay until Ray Lawrence promised not to make it 'nice.' Lawrence delivered.
Launched the 'Australian Gothic' wave of the 80s—think Crocodile Dundee's evil twin. It bombed commercially but became a cult obsession.
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