BMX Bandits
Australia
1983
88 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
Synopsis
BMX Bandits is a 1983 Australian children’s adventure film featuring one of Nicole Kidman’s earliest appearances. The film follows the exploits of two young BMX experts, P.J. (Angelo D’Angelo) and Goose (James Lugton), and their friend Judy (Nicole Kidman) after stumbling upon a box of police-band walkie talkies. A small group of incompetent bank robbers were hoping to use the walkie talkies to snoop on police traffic and they will now do anything to get them back.
The film boils down to a cartoonish chase across opportunistic sites around Sydney, including a memorable escape down the Manly Waterworks water slides, complete with BMX bikes. —wikipedia
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Brian Trenchard-Smith
Brian Trenchard-Smith (born 1946) is an English film and television director, producer, writer, consultant and actor who is notable for his contributions to the horror and action genre during the 1970s and 1980s in Australia. Most of his work has been in television, and the majority of his films have been direct-to-video releases. He generally works in the drama, action and horror genres. He has directed 42 movies and TV series including Turkey Shoot, Dead End Drive-In, The Man from Hong Kong, and Leprechaun 4: In Space.
In addition, he also has been credited by Quentin Tarantino as one of his favorite directors.
Trenchard-Smith blogs once a week at Film Industry Bloggers an online Blogging community of professionals who work throughout the world’s TV and film communities. His category is as The Genre Director. —wikipedia
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Blu-ray Review: BMX BANDITS
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
As a kid who grew up in the 80’s with early HBO, I vaguely remember BMX Bandits. There were a ton of these child-focused adventure films back in those days. In the US we had films like The Goonies, while……
Want A BMX BANDITS DVD? Here's Your Chance!
By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011
Are you guys ready for some80’s BMX madness?! Good! We’ve got one copy of Severin Films upcoming BMX Bandits DVD release ready to send out to a reader… Will that be you?I want to make this a little
Ride, Nicole, Ride! BMX BANDITS Coming To BluRay!
By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011
Before she was all prim and proper and a Serious Actress a young Nicole Kidman would star for Australian B-Movie maestro Brian Trenchard-Smith in BMX Bandits, a film that would go on to spawn an unlikely
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