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THE KING IS DEAD!

Australia / 2012 / 106 min / DCP / colour / Comedy

Director : Rolf De Heer
Script: Rolf De Heer
Cinematography : Ian Jones
Editing : Tania Nehme
Music : Graham Tardif
Production : Rolf De Heer,  Nils Erik Nielsen
Cast : Dan Wyllie, Bojana Novakovic, Gary Waddell, Luke Ford, Anthony Hayes

 

Max and Therese are happy together, and happy with the world. They move into a new neighbourhood, a nice family on one side and, well, "interesting" on the other side. But interesting becomes loud, and loud becomes intolerable and when the intolerable becomes violent, and the police are powerless, and the community lawyer suggests ear plugs, Max and Therese attempt to solve the problem of the neighbour from hell themselves...and end up with a corpse on their hands. But even that's not the worst of it. A darkly comic film about neighbours, amphetamines and giant Maoris with baseball bats.

 

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