Crocodile Dundee (1986)

Directed by

Peter Faiman

Genre

adventure film, romantic comedy film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 2,143 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A rugged Australian outback adventurer travels to New York City with a journalist. He uses his bush skills to navigate the big city and wins people over with his folksy charm.

lightheartedfunnycharmingeasygoingwhimsicalwarmplayful

What happens

Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 action comedy film directed by Peter Faiman, and starring Paul Hogan as the namesake character and American actress Linda Kozlowski as reporter Sue Charlton. Inspired by the true-life exploits of Rod Ansell, the film was made on a budget of under $10 million as a deliberate attempt to make a commercial Australian film that would appeal to a mainstream American audience, but proved to be a worldwide phenomenon. Released on 30 April 1986 in Australia, and on 26 September in the United States, it was a critical and commercial success, grossing $238 million on a budget of $8.8 million, being the highest-grossing film of all time in Australia, the highest-grossing Australian film worldwide, the second-highest-grossing film in the United States in 1986, the highest-grossing non-US film at the US box office ever and the second-highest-grossing film worldwide for the year. There are two versions of the film: the Australian version, and an international version, which had much of the Australian slang replaced with more commonly understood terms, and was slightly shorter. As the first installment in the Crocodile Dundee film series, it was followed by two sequels: Crocodile Dundee II (1988) and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001), although both films failed to match the critical success of the original. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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