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Spotswood

Spotswood

1991Movie⏱️ 1h 25mPG
ComedyDrama
6.2
IMDB Rating
2,492 votes

An expert on productivity shows wacky workers in 1966 Australia how to run their moccasin factory like clockwork, despite laying off more than half the workforce.

Director
Mark Joffe
Writers
Max Dann, Andrew Knight
Stars
Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Alwyn Kurts
Release Date
November 6, 1992
Language
English
Country
Australia
🏆 3
Wins
🎯 8
Nominations
💬 28
Reviews
📋 2.9K
Watchlists
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins
as Errol Wallace
Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn
as Carey
Alwyn Kurts
Alwyn Kurts
as Mr. Ball
Bruno Lawrence
Bruno Lawrence
as Robert, Carey's Father
👤
John Walton
as Jerry Finn
Rebecca Rigg
Rebecca Rigg
as Cheryl Ball
Toni Collette
Toni Collette
as Wendy Robinson
Russell Crowe
Russell Crowe
as Kim Barry
👤
Angela Punch McGregor
as Caroline Wallace
Dan Wyllie
Dan Wyllie
as Frank Fletcher

💰 Box Office

$179,469
Worldwide Gross
$179,469
Domestic Gross
$52,776
Opening Weekend

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.66 : 1
Color
Color
Filming Location
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Production
Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), Film Victoria, Meridian Films

🏷️ Keywords

1960sbusinessfactorymoccasinaustralia

🎯 Categories

ComedyDrama

⭐ Featured Review

Film captures the working and management class cultures
by polyglot-41999-08-08
9/10

"As an American who lived in Australia for about 3 years, I found that this film captured a lot of "Australianisms" that are hard to pinpoint, but are definitely from the Australian culture and different than the US culture. Probably the most noticeable to me was the worker vs management mentality that is so much more exaggerated in Oz. One of the most ironic things I found about their culture was how much they protested that, unlike England, there was no class system down under. But, to me as an outsider it seemed very class driven but instead of upper and lower classes they were b..."

💡 Did You Know?

Toni Collette's feature-film debut playing Carey's best friend Wendy Robinson.

📖 Synopsis

An expert on productivity shows wacky workers in 1966 Australia how to run their moccasin factory like clockwork, despite laying off more than half the workforce.