Basically a low-budget late-80's Australian film about 2 couples all tangled in the cinematic and publishing rat-races (despite claiming to hate such capitalist 'power') and subsequently all having affairs, deceiving one another, and being payed out of their principals.
Sure, this film epitomally portrays the 'Yuppydom' of the 80's - you love AND hate the promiscuous yuppy characters simultaneously, and helps you to laugh off all the excess and decadence of the 80's. If one woman publishes a book about Aboriginal oppression and retribution, another man makes a film of it, relocating all the characters to America and making the Aborigines Afro-American !
One major factor of this film that had obvious universal appeal was or course NICOLE KIDMAN. In her pre-Hollywood (and pre-'anorexic') native Australian days, she was a (natural) ginger stunner with a phenomenal chunky curvy figure; she looked absolutely luscious in those skimpy spandex/lycra outfits. I guess this film's iconic image of her with the big 80's perm and dropped-shoulder outfits caught the attention of Hollywood; this underrated film was surely her gateway to global fame. Interesting to hear her native Australian accent and all.
Together with it's cheesy and catchy score, this film is a simple, feel-good and satirical delight for 80's obsessives and Nicole Kidman's original (80's) admirers alike !
Sure, this film epitomally portrays the 'Yuppydom' of the 80's - you love AND hate the promiscuous yuppy characters simultaneously, and helps you to laugh off all the excess and decadence of the 80's. If one woman publishes a book about Aboriginal oppression and retribution, another man makes a film of it, relocating all the characters to America and making the Aborigines Afro-American !
One major factor of this film that had obvious universal appeal was or course NICOLE KIDMAN. In her pre-Hollywood (and pre-'anorexic') native Australian days, she was a (natural) ginger stunner with a phenomenal chunky curvy figure; she looked absolutely luscious in those skimpy spandex/lycra outfits. I guess this film's iconic image of her with the big 80's perm and dropped-shoulder outfits caught the attention of Hollywood; this underrated film was surely her gateway to global fame. Interesting to hear her native Australian accent and all.
Together with it's cheesy and catchy score, this film is a simple, feel-good and satirical delight for 80's obsessives and Nicole Kidman's original (80's) admirers alike !