BMX Bandits

BMX Bandits (1983)

They're burning up the streets!

Teens P.J. and Goose get their thrills on BMX bikes, performing hair-raising tricks all across Sydney, Australia. Along with their new friend Judy, they discover a box of walkie-talkies -- and find out that a gang of criminals intends to use them to monitor police signals during a bank robbery. When the young trio snatches the devices, it propels them on a hair-raising adventure in which their pedaling skills might just save their necks.

Date of release
1983-12-29
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (167)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Adventure, Crime, Drama
Director
Brian Trenchard-Smith

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$124.6K
  • Budget: A$1.1M
  • Earned 0.1× its budget
  • Filmed in: Australia
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 4

BMX Bandits is a 1983 Australian action crime comedy film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and starring Nicole Kidman, Angelo D'Angelo and James Lugton.

Production

The film was originally going to be written and directed by Russell Hagg and was going to be about nine-year-old characters. He was unable to raise finance. The project passed to producer Tom Broadbridge who hired Hagg's frequent collaborator Patrick Edgeworth to rewrite the script and make it about teenagers.

Brian Trenchard-Smith was hired after the producers had been impressed by his handling of action in Turkey Shoot. He says the script was originally set in Melbourne but he persuaded them to re-set it in Sydney to take advantage of that city's locations.

I wanted to capture the spirit of the Ealing comedies and British films of the '50s and '60s that were clearly aimed at children and delivered action and fun in a largely cartoonish way. If you look at the basic premise of the plot, the crooks clearly want to or intend to kill the children at some point, so how do you disguise that and make that palatable to an audience of kids and parents? You make the crooks buffoonish, the gang that couldn’t s…

Nicole Kidman sprained her ankle during filming. No female stunt double that looked like her could be found, so her bike stunts were performed by an 18-year-old man in a wig.

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