The Big Steal

The Big Steal (1990)

Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After he is conned into trading his Nissan Cedric for a 1973 Jaguar, he plots to win Joanna and get revenge against the sleazy car dealer Gordon Farkes.

Date of release
1990-09-20
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Nadia Tass

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$2.4M
  • Awards: 3 · Nominations: 9. Including: AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role; AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score; Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay

The Big Steal, working title Mark Clark Van Ark, is a 1990 Australian teen comedy film set in Melbourne, Australia, directed by Nadia Tass and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Claudia Karvan, and Steve Bisley. David Parker was the scriptwriter and cinematographer. The film won three Australian Film Institute awards.

Production

The film was originally known as Mark Clark Van Ark. There were problems raising the money so Tass and Parker mortgaged their house with ANZ Bank, as they did with their first film. Tim White, who had also collaborated on the two previous Tass/Parker films Malcolm (1986) and Rikky and Pete (1988) co-produced the film.

The movie was shot from 6 November to 22 December 1989.

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