BMX Bandits (1983)

Directed by

Brian Trenchard-Smith

Genre

action film, crime film, sport film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 159 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of teenagers finds a set of advanced walkie-talkies that were stolen from criminals. The thieves then chase the kids across town to get their equipment back.

funhigh-spiritedplayfullight-heartedexcitingfast-pacedadventurouscheerful

What happens

BMX Bandits (released as Short Wave in the United States) is a 1983 Australian action crime comedy film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and starring Nicole Kidman, Angelo D'Angelo and James Lugton. Stephen Vagg of Filmink described it as "perhaps the greatest Australian kids’ film ever, a brilliantly fun and high-spirited heist tale." In the film, a professional band of criminals is given orders to perform a payroll robbery. The law-enforcement-grade walkie-talkies which it intends to use to successfully elude the police are stolen by local teenaged kids, after which the gang is then compelled to pursue the juvenile thieves. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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