(For a more detailed synopsis, see the bottom of this site's 'about the movie'). To distract themselves from this grim news, the foursome get drunk, thanks to Brendan having a key to the bar, and play dress-ups and strip poker, and eventually Sharon and Brendan make love, while Sam comforts a distressed Eva.Īs a sullen dark red sky torn by lightning and thunder hovers over Sydney, the foursome eventually end up in Martin Place railway station with others seeking shelter from the bleak world above.Īt the end, Sharon and Eva sing a song to help entertain the crowd, and then the lights go out, and as Samm and others light matches, the foursome look up at the tunnel roof, wondering what's happening in the devastated world above … They begin to bond, and they all experience flashbacks - including Sam drifting back to his time with his girlfriend in New York and on leave in Paris, Sharon and Eva to school days memories, and Brendan to ballroom dancing and his absent mother.Īustralia's American bases are nuked and another nuke is dropped south of Sydney at Jervis bay. Meanwhile Brendan turns up to do his job as a cleaner, and shows his style by singing into his vacuum cleaner nozzle.Īfter the mocking of Brendan is over, and as the news trickles in over the radio that a nuclear holocaust has been unleashed and the world is facing armageddon, the foursome decide to stay inside the Opera House. He takes them to his hiding place in a bio box where he eats candy to survive. Then Sharon goes to work at the Sydney Opera House, and after the show she's joined by Eva, and that's when they find deserter Sam lurking in the toilet. They go out to see Midnight Oil concert (a full version of Short Memory), but then the women kick the men out of their flat. The action starts when Brendan and another friend Tony (David Pledger) take a lunch break from their charity work as street Santas and try to chat up Sharon and Eva. He eventually reveals a more human and sensitive side). (Note: this synopsis and listing contains spoilers)Īn end of the world film, in which a foursome meet up and wait for the end - Sam (Tyler Coppin), a young American sailor who jumps ship in Sydney, Sharon (Cassandra Delaney), an usherette at the Opera House, her friend Eva (Saskia Post), of Czechoslovakian origin concerned about her family in Europe and on the farm, and revved-up wagon-driving bogan Brendan (Jay Hackett), who's a cleaner at the Opera House (he's also relentlessly on the look out for sex, but is uncertain around women and inclined to silly theories about the sexes.
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